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...Oldsters are more stable than the young, change their jobs less often and, contrary to what many suppose, have far fewer accidents: one study showed that mill hands over 60 suffered only half as many accidents as those in their 20s; as automobile drivers, oldsters (up to 60) are safer than youngsters...
...than make up in greater endurance and skill. Biologists have found that by 50 most men have slipped a little in hearing and eyesight, but individuals vary greatly: one study showed that in a group in their 50s, a quarter had keener vision than the average man in his 20s...
...Side New York blacksmith's son, at 15 he gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall, took up engineering after hearing Mischa Elman's debut.* In a Brauhaus he played his way through college, finally landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant). For years he set the beat at Chicago's College Inn and Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill. On the radio his pseudo-feuding with Walter Winchell became as famous...
...World War I, Graham was one of the runtiest of U.S. marines. Back in North Carolina, he defended teachers of evolution against Fundamentalists in the '20s, labor's right to strike during the textile rows of the '30s and he has even said a good word for the right of others to talk about Negro social equality. His 1941 mediator's vote against the closed shop in the captive coal mines may have cost him some old labor friends, but Carolina conservatives are far from sure that Frank Graham is a fellow conservative. He is generally...
...whom Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe, he tried to help German militarists back into power, eventually sold out to France. In the mid-'20s Chinese Buddhist Abbot Chao Kung was identified as Trebitsch-Lincoln reincarnate, founder of the "League of Truth." In 1926 he was allowed to return to the side of his British soldier son Ignatius (a condemned murderer), lost his race with the hangman, repented of his wicked life. In 1938 he transcendentalized...