At 88, Pesky still takes cake
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Johnny Pesky turns 88 today. Yes, he plans to be at the ballpark tonight. Did you expect anything different?
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In a community where everyone is over 55, it's fitting that Mayor Dorothy Geeben's age has made her a celebrity of sorts. At 96, Geeben may be the nation's oldest mayor. She's so well- liked in her the retirement community of nearly 1,000 that no one is opposing her re-election this week, and her next two-year term will last through the end of 2006, or nine months past her 98th birthday.
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He&#39;s 86 now, a man possessing a quiet grace and humble dignity that belies the grandeur of his accomplishments. Bobby Doerr played 14 seasons in the major leagues.
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Jack LaLanne keeps going and going, and so do the parties celebrating his 90th birthday.
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âBanacek,â about a vintage-Packard-driving, panatela-smoking insurance investigator from ritzy Beacon Hill in Boston, is modish fun that holds up 35 years later.
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IT HAS survived rationing and the Atkins diet and now Britain - s best-selling chocolate bar is celebrating its 100th birthday.
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Despite having more than a few gray hairs, he still has some competitive gas left in his tank. And his wishy-washy musings about retirement are becoming an annual tradition.
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The 88-year-old novelist gets a second chance at an acceptance speech.
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BATH, N.Y. - A woman spiked her elderly neighbor's apple strudel cake with medicine after learning the 82-year-old man was going to include her in his will, authorities said.
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Jack Valenti took a break from cleaning out his office the other day to expound on a subject he knows well: the art of persuasion. Over minestrone soup and hummus at his usual table at the restaurant in the Hay Adams Hotel, Valenti, the 82-year-old dean of Washington lobbyists, reflected on how Washington has changed and how lobbyists should operate here.
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When Carolyn Wood, a computer programmer, retired two years ago at 63, her husband, Paul, an English professor in Philadelphia, followed suit, even though it meant forfeiting some benefits because he was just shy of his 60th birthday.
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Canadian pianist - who played with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie - was 82
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Looking back at a 25-year old conversation with the late Padmini
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Most of Dr. Marshall Goldin's medical school classmates have retired or died, but at age 67, the heart surgeon believes he still has good working years ahead.
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On his 77th birthday, George Steinbrenner, the Yankeesâ real Yankee Doodle Dandy, wasnât feeling dandy, but this season he should be accustomed to that feeling.
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GREENDALE, Wis. - Violet Fojut, 88, isn't happy that the bingo games she and fellow senior citizens have participated in at the Cream City Cafeteria in the Southridge Mall won't be held any more. "It was always packed.
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Orrin Phipps is holding his own as a driver at Plainridge Racecourse, with four wins from 27 starts. There's nothing unusual about that, except he's 82 years old.