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Last week, still fecund at 87, this corporate oldster proudly brought forth an offspring: a new car, the Studebaker Champion, frankly designed to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth in the low-price field. Other makers have tried for ten years to crash this field without success, and Studebaker itself has had two previous cracks at it with the Erskine and the Rockne...
...tried to get out of the same exit at the same time. The youngsters and their brazen school girl dates--those feline hellions with their startling curves, who had hissed vengefully at the dagger scene and necked vigorously throughout the banquet scene--now had little regard for a rheumatic oldster like Vag. Push as he might, he got nowhere until suddenly on his left he found a stairway leading down. So down he went...
...least one other thing besides the British Empire the sun never sets: the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. In Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, the U. S., they are many a tot's first taste of theatre, many an oldster's last object of devotion. They draw dramaphobes out of retirement, lure suburbanites to the city. They foster cultists as rabid as Wagnerians-cultists who, unlike Wagnerians, squeal, snort, gurgle, hum and nudge their neighbors...
...taxonomy is always arbitrary because species, genera and families tend to merge into one another. So many "missing links" have been found by paleontologists that an exact dividing line between humans and apes is almost nonexistent. Pithecanthropus erectus, the Javanese oldster regarded by most authorities as a very apish man, is called an apeman. In the past two years Dr. Robert Broom of Pretoria's Transvaal Museum has found in South Africa the fossil remains of two very manlike apes which have been called man-apes...
Like many an oldster, Logan Pearsall Smith is convinced that the younger generation (including practically everybody since Pater) is damned. Bad writers because of their "need for money, and plenty of it," they will never enter Author Smith's literary heaven. Their one hope of Grace, he pronounces, is to become expatriates...