Word: sixtyish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Senator Charles William Tobey, 72, New Hampshire Republican; and Mrs. Lillian Crompton, sixtyish, a longtime friend and neighbor; he for the third time (he was twice a widower), she for the second; in Wilton...
Died. Mrs. Alice Warder Garrett, sixtyish, great lady of Baltimore society and widow of John W. Garrett, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to Italy; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. A longtime patron of the arts, she was the main support of Baltimore's Musical Arts Quartet, a chamber music group for which she built a special theater in her home...
...Boston this week, one of the few world religions to spring from the U.S. held its annual meeting. The 7,500 Christian Scientists who assembled at the Mother Church on Falmouth Street elected a new president for the one-year term: pert, sixtyish Lora C. Rathvon, widow of' William R. Rathvon, who was corresponding secretary to Founder Mary Baker Eddy herself...
This year, as election time approached, a fusion party decided to upset the Whig pork barrel. The fusionists chose as their champion a sixtyish, reform-minded Kru tribesman named Dihdwo Twe (pronounced Daydaw Tooey), who at the age of 15 had hitchhiked his way to an education in the U.S. and friendship with Mark Twain. Tubman, although he has more than a political grudge against his opponent-Twe is married to Tubman's ex-wife-did not interfere with Twe's campaign. For a while it looked as if Liberia might have a real election...
Last week Katherine Bellamann, sixtyish, promised to "continue the story" on 1 new radio show called Kings Row (weekdays, 3:15 p.m. E.S.T., CBS). Scripted by the Bellamanns' good friend Welbourn Kelley, the radio version of Kings Row has most of the old characters, the same Midwestern scene, but takes place in 1951 instead of the 1890s. The show seemed good enough to bring Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. back to daytime radio after a nine-year absence. What listeners heard had a familiar sob-and-sacrifice ring: noble young Dr. Parris Mitchell outwitted villainous Fulmer Green, gently disengaged...