Word: nonagenarians
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...mere four weeks after the New York Times announced that Sally Quinn would join its Washington bureau, the Quinn byline turned up on a Washington Post interview of Nonagenarian Alice Roosevelt Longworth. It seems that Sally is returning to her old beat, the Post's style section, after all. "One day," she said dramatically, "you'll know why I made the decision not to join the Times and why I couldn't tell you." Veteran reporters thought they already knew. Sally was persona non grata among Times staffers because of the allegedly inflated salary...
...Famous Man Pablo Casals, cellist, composer, humanitarian, was celebrating his 95th birthday, surrounded by hordes of friends and mountains of letters, cables and presents from all over the world. The festivities have been going on for several weeks, and are scheduled to last for at least another fortnight; Nonagenarian Casals, with his 35-year-old wife Martita, has been enjoying every minute of them. He was depressed, however, by atrocity photographs from Bengal and observed: "Savages! We are all savages. To obtain peace at the rate we are going will take another 300 years. But we must start...
...Mougins she has borne the punishing weight of answering and filtering Picasso's mail, keeping his clippings up to date, dealing with the telephone, the cataloguing, the buying of food, supplies, canvas, paint and, on top of it all, calming the nerves of a high-strung and tetchy nonagenarian painter. They have produced no children. Jacqueline has a 22-year-old daughter from her previous marriage, who often visits them. But Picasso's isolation from his own offspring is nearly absolute. His first son, Paul, is now 50 and lives in Paris; his daughter by Marie...
...operatic raunchiness. Kay Tolbert's Mary Magdalene is a good-natured whore; her number, "You Can't Get a Man with a Prayer" ("God is just an abstraction/I need a little action "), places her metaphysically about midway between Wittgenstein and Melina Mercouri. And Kathy Allyn's Elizabeth, a pregnant nonagenarian, is firmly and humorously controlled...
...maneuvers, including seven fruitless pleas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Money came from those who believed that Sobell had not received a fair trial. Among the doubters were Nobel Prizewinning chemists Harold C. Urey and Linus Pauling, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Britain's nonagenarian nonbeliever, Bertrand Russell. Sobell, however, betrays scant enthusiasm today for continued legal battling to clear his name. In any case, after the verdict of his 1951 trial and more than a dozen later appeals, it would doubtless prove a fruitless enterprise...