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...retire. An oldster needs challenging (but not too heavy) work. "Idleness is [a] ticket to death...
...cider-drinking oldster saying "We never thought you would come. I
was in bed with my wife when we heard the bombardment. I said to her,
we can die downstairs or we can die upstairs. We may just as well die
in bed!"
...pueblo applauded mightily. A wise oldster among them said: "I think that I have lived to see everything." Then the palace lights went out. The pueblo danced happily into the side streets. The President turned from the balcony. A Cuban era had ended...
Captain Lewis Anselm Ritchie, R.N., was really nervous last week. The small (5 ft. 4 in.), one-eyed, tidy 58-year-oldster had caught hell at Narvik, Dunkirk, Crete, had been torpedoed twice. But his new assignment was, in a way, worse. He was to be press secretary to Britain's royal family. And his first job was to humanize Princess Elizabeth in the eyes of the Empire (and incidentally...
Adventure in Prosperity. The prime feature of the Baruch Report is its solid optimism". The shrewd oldster and his white-thatched "junior partner," John Milton Hancock, 61, said bluntly: "There is no need for a postwar depression." Far from cringing at the unknown terrors of the future, the optimistic Ancients buoyantly proclaimed that the conversion job, if competently managed, "should be an adventure in prosperity." Cried Author Baruch to Scripps-Howard's Henry J. Taylor: "If the program carries the scream of the American eagle, it is because I feel that the old bird in its own right deserves...