Word: sexagenarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungarian Li'l Abner, renowned in physical-culture circles as Mr. Universe (6 ft. 2 in., 220 Ibs.), had crashingly fallen for Broadway's Daisy-Mae-Westish Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield, 23, in full view of the tabloids. A stern theatrical disciplinarian, Sexagenarian West, punishing Mickey for openly airing his romance, demoted him in her show by putting him back on the biceps line. Since everything Mickey had now seemed to be Jayne's, Mae also killed a scene in which Mr. Universe had husked to her, twice nightly, the vintage tune Everything...
After nearly half a century of making a comedy of sex while some other business ladies were making it a commodity, billowy Sexagenarian Mae West, heavily flanked by a troupe of gorgeous muscle men, undulated about Manhattan's flesh-flaunting Latin Quarter nightclub, but between acts, in her dressing room, proved to be as unpretentious as anybody's grandma. Bedeviled by censorship in her earlier days, Playwright West (Sex, Pleasure Man) is now, strangely, all for watchdogs over public morality: "Why, if it wasn't for censors, there'd be more and more wickedness...
...rakish unpredictability, is the matinee idol in danger of growing a paunch. The Boston Symphony, with its exquisite balances and flawless inflections, is the American whose manner shows that he was raised by a French governess. The Amsterdam Concertgebouw, with its mellow strings and faintly ponderous sonority, is the sexagenarian with all his hair and a twinkle in his eye. Last week the U.S. got a chance to hear still another famed symphonic character, London's Philharmonia Orchestra, only ten years old. Its personality: blazing prodigy...
...royal palace of Al Urdhi at Taiz, a fortified stronghold where the Imam lives with his harem, the royal treasure, an arsenal of modern weapons, and a 150-man guard. From the palace window came a shout: "What is it you want? Tell me what you want," cried the sexagenarian Imam who, in his fringed turbans and silken robes, bears a striking resemblance to Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. When the soldiers called back that it was time he got off the throne, he dodged back, reappeared with a Tommy gun. But they told him the game...
Millionairess Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 30, wife of sexagenarian Conductor Leopold Stokowski and self-admitted washout as an amateur actress at 16, starred before a sellout audience at Pennsylvania's Pocono Playhouse as the princess in Ferenc Molnar's The Swan. Consensus of the critics: "Nerveless poise." With Stoky's blessing, Gloria, mother of two and a painter of some commendable abstractions, suddenly found herself "enthusiastic about making the stage a career...