Word: sexagenarian
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...France Pertinax will write thrice weekly for Pierre Lazareff's France-Soir-never again, he says, will he write daily, as he did for 21 of his 32 years on the Echo de Paris. But for a sexagenarian, grey, thick-set Pertinax will be busy: he will also edit the weekly L'Europe Nouvelle, as he did after he split with Echo in 1938 over its appeasement policies. He intends to update his best-selling U.S. book, Gravediggers of France (Pétain, Gamelin, Reynaud, Daladier). Then at last it can be published, perhaps, in the country where...
Sophie Tucker, last of the Red-Hot Mamas (see cut), emitted great waves of sexagenarian heat at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. A 179-lb. wraith of her former self, she wowed her audience with numbers from Some of These Days (which she introduced in 1909) to Mairzy Doats, rocked the club with a doubly meaningful closing act called "Dr. Tucker's Remedy." Said Miss Tucker: "Oldtime circuit vaudeville will never come back, but my show is the same as it has always been; favorites last. Everyone, everyone is so friendly, and as for my friend," she gestured across...
...Yugoslav Government-in-Exile was hastily formed in the summer of 1941 by men who symbolized most of the political errors of the past two decades. Last week the sexagenarian exiles gave themselves an overdue shake-up and ousted bent, deaf, secretive, forgetful Foreign Minister Momchilo Ninchich...
...moves. Adele Thane as a scatterbrain middle-aged wife is glaringly miscast; she parboils the comic two thirds of her part and convincingly portrays a dramatic third act. Make-up difficulties hamper Robert Bastille'43, for his audience cannot forget that they see a Harvard man disguised as a sexagenarian...
...sexagenarian general's rope trick was, however, no illusion. He wanted to help France. But when he reached Vichy he found a France quite unlike anything he had heard about within Königstein's walls. Marshal Pétain embraced him, then gave him a paper to sign, which among other things pledged him never to take up arms against Germany. General Giraud balked. Then Pierre Laval slyly suggested that the general could do France a mighty service by offering to return to prison in exchange for 400,000 married French war prisoners. General Giraud was amenable...