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Wrote New York Timesman Joseph M. Levy: "It was a heart-rending sight in court today when the octogenarian Mushanoff and 70-year-old Buroff, both of whom devoted the greater part of their lives to the cause of democracy, had to stand for almost two hours to listen to the indictment...
...France's Immortals, the black-robed Académie Française, voted to ostracize two famed colleagues: Abel Bonnard, writer who had served as Vichy Minister of Education; Abel Hermant, octogenarian novelist who wrote for Paris's pro-Nazi Les Nouveaux Temps...
Canadian judges, rarely criticized, even more rarely deign to answer critics. Last week octogenarian Justice Robert Maxwell Dennistoun of Manitoba's Appeal Court took exception to the rule, turned on a critic...
...Grandpappy" is what flyers call the BIS, first of the really big modern U.S. bombers. He is only six years old, but such age automatically qualifies any plane as an octogenarian. Grandpappy is the only B15 ever built...
...Chaucer, the usual Shakespeare, and a ponderable amount of reading in the 18th-Century worthies. Henry Fielding and the "lousy parson," the Rev. Laurence Sterne. But what Wilbur Cross really gave the boys was a liberal education in the Connecticut spirit. That spirit lives and breathes throughout the octogenarian ex-Governor's autobiography, Connecticut Yankee, a lengthy document whose dry-sherry tang saves it from collapsing into garrulity...