Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reference to the editor's note on why the University of Pennsylvania is not the fourth oldest university in the country,* I have but one thing to say: "Is the editor a Princeton...
...years, the Gazette (which proudly calls itself the oldest paper west of the Mississippi) had been edited by 74-year-old John Netherland Heiskell. Ever since he lost his son in the war, Editor Heiskell has been looking around for a successor. When he heard Ashmore's speech, he decided he had found his man. This week, liberal, 31-year-old Harry Ashmore went to work as editorial-page editor for the Gazette (circ. 92,000), whose editor calls it "a conservative paper which sometimes disappoints conservatives." Explained Old Editor Heiskell: "I certainly didn't want...
...lake appeared. But when the slave traders came, the doves left and the place was pervaded by evil. Yet a prophecy promised that when the doves returned, so would the good times. One day in 1941 a huge silvery Pan Am seaplane came circling over the water. The oldest chief squinted and declared: "The doves have come...
...bearing the tall, 42-year-old archbishop-designate, the Most Rev. Maurice Roy, drove through the crowded streets. Women pushed to the car's side, held up their children for a blessing. Msgr. Roy had arrived for his consecration as the eleventh archbishop of the Dominion's oldest diocese...
...ever verified was that of a Canadian who lived to be 113.* But according to Dr. V. G. Korenchevsky of Oxford University, an authority on longevity, more & more people are crowding the Canadian's record. Dr. Korenchevsky, reporting last week on a census of Britain's centenarians (oldest: 112), found that, percentagewise, the number of people over 100 is rising faster than the population. Between 1938 and 1945 Britain had 873 centenarians, a gain of 145 over the preceding eight-year period. Women now outnumber male centenarians five...