Word: septuagenarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plugged the theme: how little the Cleveland bachelors owned, how much they controlled. His star witness was George Alexander Ball, whose name is a household word to millions of farmers' wives who put up their preserves in his "Ball Perfect Mason" jars. Mr. Ball, a pale, grey-mustached septuagenarian with a frosty fringe around his bald cranium, told how he and Cleveland's George Ashley Tomlinson, to whom the late O. P. Van Sweringen appealed for aid in 1935, formed Midamerica Corp., put up $3,121,000 to buy at auction from J. P. Morgan & Co. collateral that...
...real heirs of the Van Sweringen empire were the two septuagenarian Midwest industrialists who backed the brothers last year when they bought back control of their vast rail and real-estate properties at public auction in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935). These backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called...
...septuagenarian's silky grey beard, spread over his hospital blanket, jerked each time he gasped the oxygen which an electric motor blew upon his face. Another midnight passed, and attendants of Brooklyn's Jewish Hospital left Aaron Handler, dying of heart disease, alone for a while. Then a dull boom from his room recalled nurses and internes on a dead run. They found Aaron Handler's beard a shriveling, stinking torch fanned by the breeze of oxygen. Whether the electric pump emitted a combustive spark, or whether his beard generated a spark by rubbing against the woolen...
Other vigorous oldsters in the scientific limelight at Rochester last week were Professor Frederick George Novy, 71, of the University of Michigan, and President Edward Bausch, 81, of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. To Septuagenarian Dr. Novy, only living U. S. bacteriologist who studied under Pasteur (1822-95), one of the few living who studied under Koch (1843-1910), prototype of benign and learned Dr. Gottlieb in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, Octogenarian Mr. Bausch, who still designs new optical devices, last week gave a newly completed microscope, 250,000th built by Bausch & Lomb during 60 years of manufacturing...
...Brothers (Lux, Lifebuoy), was Britain's famed high-wages-&-short-hours Prophet. Procter & Gamble (Ivory) was an early experimenter with the guaranteed work year and employe representation on the board of directors. Last week two other household soap names made social news. One was Samuel Simeon Fels, scholarly septuagenarian maker of Fels Naptha. The other was J. (for James) Crate Larkin, vice president of Buffalo's Larkin Co., Inc., makers of the soap U. S. children sell their parents' friends for the sake of Larkin premiums...