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...knew, had been Secretary of War of the U. S. way back in the days of President William McKinley. In fact the gentleman is so venerable that today the new U.S. Secretary of State?Henry Lewis Stimson?is a man who used to be a junior partner in the oldster's law firm. Therefore last week Nurse Emily Stewart felt a great sense of responsibility as she tended Elihu Root...
Apple-Cheeked Gwilym. Since all is fair in love and politics, Conservatives baited their hook to catch workpeople's votes by popping into one of the Party's showiest offices an apple-cheeked ex-coal-miner, one Gwilym Rowlands, an oldster as pink and enticing as an angler's worm...
Wise the middle-aged golfer who learns to cut down his swing to conserve energy. And wise the middle-aged squash player who, speedy in his day, learns a softball style and lets the other fellow slash. Such is the wisdom of Dr. Harold R. Mixsell, hale squash oldster of Manhattan's Princeton Club, that his new softball style is even more baffling than the slam-banging game he used to play. Last week, it won for him, with great ease, his fourth consecutive national veterans' squash championship. Runner-up: William Murray Lee of the Columbia University Club...
...indignant young man and a genial, flabby-handed oldster conferred, last week in the Prime Minister's Room of the House of Commons, without witnesses, without prior notice to the press. Edward of Wales told Stanley Baldwin about his recent tour of the North English coal fields, described scenes of bitter misery and awful squalor which had caused H. R. H. to exclaim (TIME, Feb. 11): "This is ghastly! I never thought things were so bad!" "A ghastly mess. . . ." Presumably the heir to the throne used equally strong language, last week, to the Prime Minister. What would Stanley Baldwin...
...Oldster Baldwin did nothing overt, last week, but presently the press was informed that youngster Wales would not make his announced trip to South Wales, where the poverty and near famine of unemployed miners is even more notorious than in the North. Rightly or wrongly correspondents thought that the Prime Minister's large, flabby hand had stayed the Prince...