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...Along with many another notable, President Hoover last week sent a congratulatory letter to William C. Creamer, octogenarian silk salesman of Manhattan's Arnold, Constable & Co. Salesman Creamer remembers selling silk by the yard to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Ulysses Simpson Grant, recalls seeing Theodore Roosevelt brought to the store by his mother...
...unwieldy for one year's study; that is the fundamental trouble. A survey course such as elementary Fine Arts has pictures and slides to form continuity in the student's mind, but Philosophy A leaves behind for many only a host of intellectual specters headed by octogenarian Socrates babbling worn out truths to a motley train of the lame, the halt, and the blind...
...letting it be understood that she had taken her life. In Act II-17 years later-she still looks 23, younger than her daughter to whom she returns incognito and from whom she steals the affections of a worthless young man. Then she disappears, reappears- in Act III-an octogenarian, a little tired, but still looking 23. Her doddering husband dies in her arms, she dies out of sympathy. The nurse (Haidee Wright), having evidently wished on the necklace for eternal life, survives. Only in the second act does Mrs. Moonlight seem anything like plausible. The supporting characters generally seem...
Juan Read, octogenarian Dominican Republic lumber tycoon, retired diplomat, left his Santo Domingo home hurriedly for treatment in the famed U. S. Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. Entraining at Manhattan, he rode as far as Rochester, N. Y., where, hearing the station called, he de-trained in a rush, asked through an interpreter to be directed to the Mayo Clinic, discovered he was in the wrong Rochester (there are 16 in the U. S.). Since delay might prove disastrous, Octogenarian Read chartered a plane to Baltimore, was shortly under the care of famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young of the Brady...
...Foundation in 1920, netted Johns Hopkins $7,000,000 much sought after by other universities, to found its School of Hygiene and Public Health. Many another loose million has been lured to Johns Hopkins to be converted into buildings, laboratories, endowment by the scientific and diplomatic prowess of energetic Octogenarian Welch...