Word: oldest
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...last week an old friend dropped into the office of handsome, courtly Samuel Hay Kauffmann to congratulate him. At 50, Kauffmann had been elected president of the Washington Evening Star-the capital's oldest, richest and most conservative newspaper. Said the friend: "I remember the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the tailgate of a Star truck." Sam Kauffmann, grandson and namesake of the Star's first president, had started at the bottom 28 years ago to learn the business side of the business...
...Alfred Worcester '78, of Waltham is now the oldest living graduate. He received his Medical Degree here...
Theodore P. Adams '67, who was Harvard's oldest living alumnus, died at Plymouth Saturday at the age of 103. During his senior year here, the future Cambridge Latin School teacher witnessed the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln...
...Turley was no Sarah,* but there are few cases on record of childbearing at 59. In the 18th Century, Lucas Debes wrote of a Scandinavian woman who supposedly became pregnant at 103. Pliny reported that Cornelia of the family of Serpius bore a son at 60. Probably the oldest case known to scientific record, reported in 1882, is a Scottish woman who gave birth to her 22nd child...
America's oldest scientific equipment goes on display tomorrow in Mallinckrodt lobby...