Word: septuagenarian
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Sally Rand, septuagenarian fan dancer, when asked after a recent performance whether she really wears nothing beneath her ostrich plumes: "It doesn't much matter. The Rand is quicker than...
Aaron Copland, septuagenarian composer-conductor, on his craft: "Conducting is a real sport. You can never guarantee what the results are going to be, so there's always an element of chance. That keeps it exciting...
Maude Coffin Pratt, focal point of Paul Theroux's latest novel, is a septuagenarian who has taken pictures ever since "a friend of Mama's bought me a camera because she thought I wasn't getting enough fresh air." Maude's picture taking became a career; she herself eventually became a legend to the millions who work and play in the form that is a billion-dollar synapse between technology...
...29th of April, I'm planning to run a 10,000-meter race in Central Park. I have a ten-dollar bet with my doctor on whether or not I'll finish," Wicklund says. The septuagenarian also plans to run in October's New York City Marathon and finish in under four hours...
...septuagenarian Wichita widow, Olive Ann Beech is quite a flirt. As chairman and co-founder of Kansas' Beech Aircraft Corp., which she has run since her husband Walter's death in 1950, she has been tempting-and turning down-various corporate suitors anxious to merge with her company for years. Now, after spurning such hopefuls as Lockheed and Grumman, Olive Ann may at last be ready to say "I do" -and to one of their major competitors: General Dynamics...