Do We Live Longer?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 370, 2 June 1928, Page 27

Do We Live Longer?

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boy of 69! Yet in the last century they would all have been reckoned

remarkably long livers for literary men.

i Naval nonagenarians are rare birds. Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle, at 92, is able to go to public dinners, to take ihe chair at public meetings, and to read without glasses. “Admirals nowadays." he says, “do not take enough risks." He would like to show them —even at 92! Lawyers often pass the three-score years-and-ten mark, but they do not often keep their faculties as bright and their memories as sharp as are those | of Sir Edward Pollock, who is 87. Lord i Philimore is another die % ;uished ; lawyer in his 83rd year. Old age has j not made him sentimental. He is strongly opposed to making prisons “comfortable.” They ought not, he declares, to be “homes of rest.” Two favourite actors who must be included in our survey are Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson and Mr. William Farren. Neither of them is still acting regularly, but they are full of life in other directions.