Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reputation for secretiveness. He was born in Denver in 1932, the second child (by her second husband) of Daisie Walker, a politician's daughter from Steamboat Springs, Colo. When Jack was two, his father died, and Daisie was left penniless. She farmed out the boy and his older half-sister, Helen. Jack went to a Denver orphanage. In 1940, when his mother married John Earl King, a prosperous rancher, she gathered her family together again...
...heart disease was excellent, but apt to mislead a good many people in various ways. You make out that our hectic way of life is the cause of it. The reason for our high percentage of deaths from heart disease is that we are very long-living people. The older a person is when he dies, the more likely he is to die of heart disease. You make out that we Americans have the highest percentage of deaths from heart disease of any country in the world. The Australians claim to be the laziest and most easygoing people...
...Unknown Soldier. Arlington's population is growing at the rate of 75 funerals a week, and by 1969 or 1970, the cemetery will be filled with the nation's honored dead. Before that time, presumably, an Unknown Soldier of World War II will be interred beside his older brother-in-arms. Congress has authorized such a burial, but last week, ten years after the war, no unknown warrior had been selected, and the Army Quartermaster's Office was still "coordinating" its plans...
...drew Bill into it. He wasn't as enthusiastic about it as she was, but he went along with it." Amid the glamour, the Woodwards' domestic life was anything but serene. As Bill matured, he grew more attractive to women, and Ann, five years older and desperately hiding the fact, began to fade. There were frequent quarrels, embarrassing scenes, separations and reconciliations. Seven years ago the two seriously discussed divorce, but called it off for the sake of their two young sons. Bill was rumored to be enamored of an Italian princess at one time...
...Morgan & Co., Inc., but kept the post of chief executive officer of the bank. He was succeeded as president by Henry P. Davison, 57, formerly a senior vice president, while Thomas S. Lament, 56, also a former senior vice president, moved up to vice chairman. Simultaneously, four older leading officers withdrew from board posts but will stay on at famed "23 Wall" as directors and members of the executive committee. They are George Whitney, 70, former chairman; Russell C. Leffingwell, 77, and Arthur M. Anderson, 75, former vice chairmen; Junius S. Morgan, 63, grandson of the founder and a former...