Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the 1948 Assembly convened, the oldest member, 78-year-old Marcel Cachin, presided as chairman, according to custom. It was not Cachin who had the non-Communists worried. It was slick, sly Comrade Jacques Duclos, who was the Assembly's first vice president last year...
Cocos shook their fists, called their opponents "American lackeys." A group of anti-Reds retorted by singing The Volga Boatmen. When Cachin left the chairman's seat, the second oldest member, 75-year-old Maurice Viollette, was hustled forward to take his place. But a cordon of Reds barred...
Married when he was 17, Regan now has four children, the oldest 23, the youngest 17. He knows close to 200 Irish ballads, half of them too bawdy to sing in public, and half of what's left, too sad. His theory: "Why should I make the customers cry, when I can make them happy...
Tempest over Teacups. Now chancellor of Peking, China's oldest and best university, Dr. Hu is his country's most influential educator. He is also its No. 1 living historian and philosopher, and a wartime ambassador to the U.S. His newest achievement: the first syndicated column in China, which now broadcasts his views on social reform to 50 newspapers from Manchuria to Siam...
Proud, tubby little Andy Varipapa, at 53 the oldest man in the tournament, liked to puff out his gorilla chest and announce that he is the world's greatest bowler (TIME, May 5). A good many of the experts disagreed. They would rather bet their money on glum, gum-chewing Joe Wilman, 41, who was bowling man of the year in 1946 and went about his trade in very businesslike fashion. In Chicago's drafty Madison Street Armory last week, Andy and Joe staged a seesaw duel that made the bowling experts forget anything they had seen before...