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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...
Then Yukio Ozaki announced, "Americans have been wonderfully kind, but the Japanese do not understand . . . It is my task to make them understand." The comparative failure of his earlier efforts had not dimmed Ozaki's interest nor killed his hope. "I am thinking," the erect oldster said serenely, "of more distant, important visions in the world...
...Moody Jr. of Galveston. Moody is a wispy, somber oldster who in his 80s dresses always in black, treats men in their 60s as youngsters. He controls banks, newspapers, a large insurance company, vast ranching interests and oil holdings. He has a dead eye for duck shooting, and runs Galveston...
...fill Clement's post, Pennsy directors picked another oldster, hulking (6 ft. 6 in.) Executive Vice President Walter S. Franklin, himself at the voluntary retirement age of 65 (mandatory retirement age: 70). Franklin had started on a freight platform in Philadelphia in 1906, worked steadily up through the freight division. He left the Pennsy three times-twice to become president of other railroads (Wabash and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton). Each time he returned to a better job with the Pennsy. In 1948 he was made executive vice president...