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...teenager he wheedled his way into singing at a local Kansas City club: "The man who owned the joint . . . asked me how old I was, and I told him twenty, and he looked at me and said, 'Your mama know where you are?' " The irrepressible octogenarian Alberta Hunter, who got her start as a singer in Chicago "sporting houses," once got on the wrong side of Ethel Waters: "I guess I outsang her, because she put everything but the kitchen stove...
That settled, the Cardinals will come forward one by one to pay homage to the new Pope. Messages will be dispatched to the octogenarian Cardinals outside the conclave. Then, with the crowds waiting in St. Peter's Square, the senior Cardinal Deacon will step out on the central balcony of St. Peter's and declare, "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!" (I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope!) The new Pontiff, the Cardinal will continue, is "the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Cardinal --, who has taken the name --." At that moment the world...
...person and you must treat it like one. You must put it in its best environment, like a person," says Moore. "That's why I like my large sculptures to be sited with trees and water, where they can get a change of light." How would the octogenarian-to-be describe his works? "If you could put it in words," says Moore, "there would be no need for the sculpture...
Jean Rhys, octogenarian British novelist (Good Morning, Midnight), on living in France: "Paris sort of lifted you up. It did, it did, it did! You know, the light is quite pink, instead of being yellow or blue. I've never seen anything like it anywhere else...
...November TV special titled The George Burns One-Man Show and is preparing for a starring part in the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A new comedy film, Oh, God!, featuring Burns in the title role, has just opened. Last week the active octogenarian paused long enough to drop into the Beverly Hilton hotel and accept the first annual Jack Benny Memorial Award from the March of Dimes. While Ann-Margret, Bob Hope and some 700 others at the $125-a-plate fund raiser looked on, Frank Sinatra presented Burns with his newest trophy: a large...