Word: seventyish
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...Shameless Old Lady. Blithely disregarding the tendency of French film makers to accent the negatives of youth, this fledgling work winsomely salutes the positives of ripe old age. Seventyish but young at heart, the heroine has barely buried her husband when her grown children begin debating what to do about Poor Mother. Poor Mother soon ends the debate and infuriates the brood by doing just as she pleases...
...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw, is substandard G.B.S., full of mildewed seventyish garrulities on religion, militarism and the idle rich. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-rushes about filling the dramatic vacuum...
...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw, is substandard G.B.S., full of mildewed seventyish garrulities on religion, militarism and the idle rich. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-rushes about filling the dramatic vacuum...
Died. Taube Coller Davis, seventyish, U.S. fashion oracle known for 35 years by her professional name of "Tobe"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Bubbly but ever so shrewd, Tobe gave advice through her syndicated columns in some 50 papers, her newsletters (printed on blue paper with breezy peach covers), her $1,000-a-day consultations, and her 150-girl Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion Careers. Her Manhattan town house was a rendezvous for mannequins and matrons, and her influence was such that in 1953 the French government made her a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
Died. Isabel Dodge Sloane, seventyish, blunt and steely auto heiress who became the first lady of U.S. horseracing; following intestinal surgery; in Palm Beach. Daughter of Pioneer Auto Builder John F. Dodge, she shied away from high society to devote her energies to her Brookmeade Stables, won the track's richest laurels with thoroughbreds Cavalcade (1934 Kentucky Derby winner) and Sword Dancer (top money-earner of 1959), but rarely rode herself...