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...instance, open to the accusation of heresy for having grinned . . . at your recent reference to "that occasionally tedious oldster" [TIME, May 10] ? I hardly think so. And the bristling broadside of "protests...
...night last week 66-year-old S. Allen Norton, who was Mount Hermon's cashier at the time of Headmaster Speer's death and who retired to nearby Greenfield last August, went to see the police. In a state of high agitation Oldster Norton related that he was putting his car in the garage when he saw a man standing in the door, pointing a shotgun at him. "Hey, Norton, I want to talk to you," Mr. Norton said the man said. He dodged behind his car, saw his assailant run off across the lawn. A maid employed...
Staked by two hard-pressed prospectors m the winter of 1935 in Nevada's Slumbering Hills northwest of Winnemucca was a gold claim now known as the Jumbo Mine. For $10,000-$500 down-the Jumbo was sold a few months later to one George Austin, a grizzled oldster who ran the hotel and general store in a nearby flag stop called Jungo on the Western Pacific". Jumbo ore assayed as high as $1,495 per ton. Other members of the Austin family staked adjoining claims, signed an agreement among themselves not to sell out except as a group...
...young Lawyer Borah went to Idaho, young Lawyer Van Devanter, just across the border in Wyoming, had already retired as chief justice of the State supreme court and was about to become chairman of the Republican State Committee. Today, Borah occupies apartment 77 at No. 2101 Connecticut Avenue and Oldster Van Devanter occupies apartment 47, three floors below. When they meet in the elevator, they say "Hello Bill" and "Hello Willis...
...John D. Rockefeller, the sinister master of old Standard Oil, has long since been replaced in the public mind by John D. Rockefeller, the gentle oldster who gave away more money than any man who ever lived. For that astonishing handspring in public opinion, John Rockefeller could thank in large measure the late famed Ivy Ledbetter Lee, his longtime pressagent...