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Indispensable Oldster. When Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu paused at Manila on his way to Washington last week, he paid his respects to Tommy Hart. Murmured he: "It is my business to keep the Admiral idle." The Admiral, weathered, wrinkled, tough as a winter apple, smiled broadly. As full of energy as a boy, he is far happier when he is bouncing around on inspection tours aboard his tooth-shaking, 245-foot yacht The Isabel than when he sits in his shore office in Manila's Mars-man Building, overlooking the Bay where most of his fleet anchors. According...
From onetime richest Macfadden magazine, Physical Culture had come gradually to smell of must and stale sweat. Its newsstand circulation fell to a senile 36,156, the smallest in the Macfadden tribe. But Oldster Macfadden, stubborn and misty-eyed, always remembered that Physical Culture 42 years ago started him on his climb to fortune, publicized him as a muscle messiah. As long as he had the say he flatly refused to turn it into a beauty magazine...
...York's Apawamis Club. Nathaniel Vickers cleared his throat, bowed his shaggy white head and socked a golf ball -klonk. Far and true down the fairway flew the ball. "You're not going to play 18 holes, are you?" a bystander asked. "I came here," snapped Oldster Vickers, snipping each word as though he had scissors in his teeth, "with that...
...veterans competing in the U.S. Senior golf championship (for players over 55), and he expected to last the two rounds. Seniors play only two rounds instead of four, compete in classes, from E (55 to 60), to A (75 and up). Last week Oldster Vickers had 21 golfers to beat. Largest gallery followed frisky Mr. Vickers and his partner, 86-year-old Rev. William W. Leete...
Every golfing oldster has heard about the fabulous legend of Canadian George Lyon, who scored a 70 on his 70th birthday, continued to "shoot his age" when he was 71, 72, 73, 74, 75. Last week there were no Lyons in the pack. Best Class A score for 36 holes was 180 (88-92), chalked up by C. T. Jaffray, 75, of Minneapolis...