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...German Revolution," who screamed Communist abuse of President von Hindenburg, demanded his impeachment (TIME, Sept. 12). Last week the new (7th) Reichstag was opened in equally abusive fashion by grizzled, gimlet-eyed, grey-mustached General Karl Litzmann, 82, the Fascist Party's specially acquired official parliamentary oldster...
...will not serve if elected." When Death finally came for him in 1891 Sherman was 71. At his military funeral in Manhattan, on a raw February day, a bystander urged one of the aged pallbearers to put on his hat, warned him he might catch his death. The oldster refused, ten days later was dead of pneumonia. That was Joe Johnston...
Patients young & old at Manhattan's cityrun Bellevue Hospital marvelled one day last week at an oldster who arrived to entertain them for the publicity which all such charity performances are accorded by the city's press. He was ''Powder River Jack" Lee, a leathery, garrulous, honest-injun cowboy from the wild old West. Wearing a ten-gallon hat and brightly decorated chaps he sang rip-roaring cowboy songs in a voice which he says will carry 300 yards against the wind. He bucked and reared as if he were riding a snorting bronco. He played...
...Springfield, Ill., home of Lincoln, the Grand Army of the Republic last week held its 66th encampment. One Civil War oldster got out of bed at 2:45 a. m. to blow reveille. At 4:30 a. m. a life & drum corps again roused the sleepy. To "Marching Through Georgia" and ''Yankee Doodle" 637 octogenarians hobbled nine long blocks past the reviewing stand and Commander-in-Chief Samuel Patterson Town...
...Nobody notices human suffering in all this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face...