Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which they have received our generosity. At this point we find two individuals confronting each other in Mr. Goodfriend's pages--a baffied American advertising executive, evidently stuck on the problem how further to exploit the "X" in LUX ("New! Faster! Sudsier! So Safe!"), and a primordial-looking Chinese oldster, complete with whiskers and pipe, peering quizzically at us through Chinese eyes. The subsequent illustrations of what WE SAW and what THEY SAW ("WE SAW output raised by tractors and other machinery": "THEY SAW wheels, gears and gasoline that mystified and humiliated them," and so on) is the most mordant...
...admitted as a 77-year-old to a dreary old folks' home. Before long, his fellow dotards are capering like retarded children, he has deflated pompous Preacher Hugh Marlowe, and increased the pulse beat of pretty but repressed Nurse Joanne Dru. Then Webb is exposed as a fraudulent oldster and, somewhat irrationally, the other inmates turn against him. Eventually, of course, the old folks re-embrace their benefactor, and Belvedere ends in a damp rush of sentimentality that finds the nurse and preacher in each other's arms, the oldsters acting kittenish again, and Webb walking jauntily...
...built in his family's backyard garage five years ago, when the general manager was 14. His transmitter, from a beat-up B17, had been bought at an Arrny surplus sale. In December, when the owners decided to go on the air commercially, Station Engineer John McCarter, an oldster of 28 who holds a third-class radio operator's card, souped up the transmitter so that it covered a twelve-mile radius...
Shannon City, Iowa, for example, has lost 119 of its 288 inhabitants. Ernest L. Edwards, who runs the general store, can remember when three blocks in town had 23 children; now the same houses have only about a dozen widows. Said an oldster: "None of the kids ever comes back here to live after they've gone away to school." Perry Wilson, editor of the town's newspaper, died, and the paper died with him. John Butt, 82-year-old ex-mayor, lives alone on the edge of town since his wife died. His three sons are working...
...into town in a drizzling rain, the streets were almost deserted. The chief of police was arrested, and "executed" out behind Foley's furniture store. Sheriff Ed Lemkull was playfully roughed up (see cut). Red flags were hung all over the main street and road blocks established. One oldster complained bitterly about standing in line for a permit to buy each glass of beer. "That's the severity of it, Al," explained the ration clerk...