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Understaffed. In Tulsa, Okla., Paper Boy Leon Stagg was told to put the police chief's copy of the World under his office door "to keep detectives from stealing...
Notified by Yale University that he is the school's oldest living graduate, football's Grand Old (97) Man Amos Alonzo Stagg (Yale '88) mulled over the matter for a moment, then wired back to New Haven: "Thanks for your good telegram telling me of the distinction which has befallen me. I shall try to behave myself for the rest of my days so that dear old Yale will not suffer...
...were delighted to see our own Amos Alonzo Stagg on your Oct. 20 cover. Mr. Stagg is a vital part of the life of our association. He is idolized by the youngsters, and has become an example of the highest qualities of Christian character-which we have encouraged our older boys and young men to follow...
...Presidents to have reached fourscore, and the first in 100 years,*Hoover endured not only the emotional torment of a presidency that spanned most of the Depression, but two decades of obloquy in which his name was equated with economic disaster and social injustice. A poor boy who, like Stagg, got his early exercise involuntarily, and a self-made millionaire like Sloan and Kettering, Herbert Hoover has long since dropped the daily gym exercises that won him fame as head of the "medicine-ball Cabinet." Still, his energy seems almost unlimited. He rises early, usually around...
...naturally they are vastly wider among human beings, living under infinitely more varied conditions, not only social but physical, economic, nutritional and medical. In this fact lies one of the gerontolo- gists' chief hopes: to discover why some men are biologically old at 60, while others like Stagg are still young at a far more advanced chronological age-then to apply this knowledge to slow down what now appears to be premature aging...