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Died. Walter A. Griffin, 102, believed to have been the oldest practicing physician in the U.S. until his retirement last January; in Sharon, Mass. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Griffin began his practice in Sharon in 1901, making house calls by horse and buggy (his fee: $1.50). The doctor was a firm believer in the curative powers of fresh air and exercise. During the 1918 influenza epidemic. Griffin advised 400 stricken patients to open their windows, take fever-reducing medicine and get out of bed as quickly as possible. His widow recalls that only one died...
...SITTING in a darkened living room in Arequipa, Peru, 4200 miles due south of Cambridge. Today Jenny, the oldest daughter of this Peruvian middle-class family, turns 20 years old. For her, it will be the most important day of the year. Various female cousins are stationed on couches, exchanging news of family and friends in hushed tones, with an eye cocked to the window. Lest Jenny spoil her surprise party by entering unannounced, her 16-year-old sister Lillian is poised to intercept her. But Lillian's alertness is premature. An hour passes with muffled laughter and continuous conversation...
...oldest of seven children, Hume's father was unemployed from the end of World War II until his death 20 years later. Hume started to work at the age of eight to supplement his mother's meager earnings and his father's unemployment benefits. Hume enrolled at the National University of Ireland in the Republic in 1954, where, after briefly considering study to enter the priesthood, he eventually earned bachelor's degrees in French and modern history, and a masters in history. Not surprisingly given his background, Hume wrote his masters thesis on the social and economic history of Londonderry...
This week Morgan will buy his own journal of ideas, The Nation, America's oldest continuously published weekly (founded in 1865). The magazine has always been slightly to the left of American journalism, and often out in front. The Nation blew the whistle five months before the event on CIA preparations for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion-to little avail-and published the first article on automobile safety by a young lawyer named Ralph Nader. Publisher James J. Storrow Jr., who has owned the magazine since 1965, put it on the block early this year, after the retirement...
...Barracuda-class named Sweet Isolation, in honor of his father's political views. Much later there were ocean-going yachts bearing such names as The Panic (in honor of the Great Depression?) and Suzy Wong (in honor of the world's oldest laissez-faire enterprise?). Cyrano, in fact, might have been named Loophole. Buckley charters the boat for much of the year, making him eligible for depreciation allowances on it, deductible expenses, etc. He alludes to such arrangements but spares the details. The reader is envious enough...