Word: octogenarian
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...Divine Moment (by Robert Hare Powel; produced by Peggy Fears Blumenthal). A patrician old spinster (Charlotte Granville) lies in her Newport, R. I. house where the lamps are still filled with whale oil, the bathtubs are tin, the portraits 150 years old. She is briskly sentimental with an octogenarian admiral (William Ingersoll) who has thoughtfully dissembled his love for 60 years, tries to persuade her young nephew (Tom Douglas) to give up his Wall Street career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these...
...Munitions Tycoon Sir Basil Zaharoff who owns much of Monte Carlo is supposed to have started, among other stories, the one about the Vatican being No. 2 stockholder in Monte's Casino. Last week octogenarian Sir Basil ("The Mystery Man of Europe") told reporters that he was going to make the first formal press statement of his career. "You can quote me as saying," he chuckled, "that I shall not die to please the Press! I am sincerely annoyed by all these reports of my illness. Just now I am feeling fine and enjoying my food...
CONQUISTADOR-Archibald MacLeish- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). To Octogenarian Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a conquistador retired to his estate in Guatemala, there came from Spain Francisco Lopez de Gomara's account of Cortes' Mexican expedition of 1519. The old lion Bernal was aroused. Who was this fine young Professor de Gomara, to be making charts out of battles and histories out of men? Old Bernal fought those battles, knew those men. He could make them live again-blood, bones, the light in their eyes, the sand in their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History...
...justifiable homicide if committed in the interest of the Fatherland. In 1928 he changed parties, was elected to the Reichstag by the Nazis, re-elected in 1930. At 63, he is tall, stiff, soldierly, with piercing eyes and a fine scowl that to Nazis contrasts favorably with the octogenarian benignity of President Paul...
...summers ago two octogenarian Scots made a deal for the barren island of St. Kilda, among The Hebrides. Seller was Sir Reginald Macleod, 84, 24th chief of the clan, director of Shell Transport & Trading Co. Buyer was Archibald Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa. Last summer the Marquess removed St. Kilda's 35 tenants, their cattle and a few sheep to Ayrshire where he owns 76,000 acres. Left behind were wild sheep, seamews and puffins. Declared the Marquess' heir, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis: "My father and I will never again permit the island to be settled' (TIME...