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There aren't many veterans of the blizzard of '88 still in College, and they don't write letters to newspapers asking about Santa Claus; some of them won't even, admit that this was a hell of a snow fall. One grisly octogenarian had remarked on a certain Sunday, "They don't make storms like that any more," but on December 26 he happened to hold up a damp finger in the wind, shattering all his illusions and allusions to the past...
Once, in his excitement after a brilliant violin solo, the old man interrupted the music of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite to clap. Conductor Beecham threw a silencing glance over his shoulder and Composer Strauss looked around apologetically. When the concert was over, the crowds stood applauding while Octogenarian Strauss climbed slowly "down the stairs to the stage. He bowed and croaked "Merci! merci...
Like a nocturnal creature suddenly caught in the sun, Deferrari recoiled from the wave of questions that followed. When someone asked him what he ate, he replied with octogenarian bluntness: "I ask my bowels. If they need food that will go right through me, I eat fruit. If I'm feeling good, I cook myself a steak...
Peals of girlish laughter had definitely replaced the monotonous buzz of crickets in a small sector of the Radcliffe Quadrangle last night. The transition even raised a smile beneath the facial foliage of a bearded octogenarian, a vesperian landmark with his dachshund on a Walker Street stroll...
...sometimes have hundreds. He figures that must be why three Swedish museums own them. It was not the reason that Manhattan's Museum of Natural History put his pictures on exhibition last week. The Museum had found a primitive of the likes of upstate New York's octogenarian painter "Grandma" Moses (TIME...