Word: sixtyish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mrs. Hranoush Aglaganian Sidky Bey ("Madame Bey"), sixtyish, beetle-browed, square-rigged operator of the famed Bey's Training Camp for prize fighters near Summit, N.J.; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J. Widow of a onetime Turkish Consul General in New York, she had fed and mothered fighters on her farm for nearly 20 years. Among her "boys" were Tunney, Camera, Berlenbach, Schmeling, Battling Siki. She never bet on a fight...
Engaged. Cinemactress Ona Munson, 33, the Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind: and ex-FHAdministrator Stewart McDonald, sixtyish, now Deputy Federal Loan Administrator; in Hollywood...
...Catherine O'Brien, sixtyish, has been a good Catholic all her life. One day last week she was making the beds in a room at the New York Athletic Club, where she has worked for 40 years, when two frozen-faced young men came softly in behind her and demanded her keys. They wanted to get in Room No. 1903, across the hall, they whispered. When Mrs. O'Brien asked why, one of the soft-snarling men stuck a revolver against her apron. Mrs. O'Brien put her hand in her apron pocket where she kept...
After her station wagon cracked into a car near Redlands, Calif., as she headed for a desert holiday, plump, sixtyish Cinemactress Mary Boland was hospitalized with fractured ribs, dislocated hip, gashed head...
...shiny new super-highway the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania paid not one cent. The Turnpike Commission, appointed by Democratic Governor George Earle, got $29,250,000 from PWA, and a $40,800,000 loan from RFC. Tough, driving, sixtyish Walter Adelbert Jones, commission chairman, set a construction deadline at July 1, 1940 (to get the PWA grant), sent "cats" and bulldozers racing over Appalachian slopes like Nazi tanks in the Ardennes, ordered concrete flushed over roadbeds that had been given scarcely the winter to settle. The road was completed in 21 months. There was no fanfare this week as the Pennsylvania...