Word: nonagenarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason of their strength-and '-' modern medicine-more and more Americans are living beyond the Biblical threescore years and ten, and beyond fourscore. What makes for a long life? What makes a long life livable? And useful? In this week's cover story on Nonagenarian Amos Alonzo Stagg, Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant reports on the medical progress that has prolonged human life. To supplement the story, TIME presents a gallery of U.S. elders, photographed by LIFE'S Alfred Eisenstaedt (who is only 59). "Eisie," who has probably photographed more famous people than any other photographer, carried...
...Nonagenarian Stagg's life, though far from typical, may contain clues, for the observant gerontologist, to the secret of a long and useful existence. The first factor in Stagg's favor-though not to the same degree as in the case of some of his near peers-is heredity. Stagg's father, a cobbler who lived in West Orange, N.J., lived to be 73, his mother...
Pleasing, well-lighted and rich in art, the new museum in its first year is drawing well over 1,000 visitors a day. Most distinguished: Florence's nonagenarian Renaissance Art Expert Bernard Berenson, who summoned up strength to visit Capodimonte, stayed for more than half an hour before Masaccio's Crucifixion (high on "BB's" list of world masterpieces), then left, overwhelmed...
...long, sweet and melancholy." Shipped to Rome's Restoration Institute, the painting has been carefully worked over for the past seven months. The Madonna which emerged, with amaranth-red robe, gilt-edged blue veil and glittering gold medallion is judged by critics the finest Martini oil painting known. Nonagenarian Renaissance Critic Bernard Berenson, who once called Martini "the most lovable of all the Italian artists before the Renaissance," said of the discovery: "It is certainly a masterpiece. And there is not the slightest doubt that it is an authentic Simone Martini...
Buoyed by her current rave notices, she will not predict when she will retire, although she already has her final play picked out: Cockadoodle Daisy, written for her by husband Charlie, who drew on the life of Lady Elsie Mendl, the acrobatic nonagenarian decorator who wore her hair blue and regularly stood on her head. "But I'm not ready yet," says Actress Hayes. "After all, I'm only 57, and Lady Mendl lived to be over 90. I think I'll put it off for a while...