AN OLD TURK’S BOAST
TO LIVE FOR EVER "I’m going to live as long as the world lasts,” said Agha Zaro, aged 156, who dropped Into New York from Turkey to otter his antique body to scientists and dictate a century-and-a half autobiography. lie needs a set of artificial teeth, for his third natural set played out when he was 105. and, at 120, he was a toothless old man again. He has endured twelve wives and six wars. His present wife is 90. He left her in Turkey. All his 36 children are deajl except the y-oungest daughter, born when he was 96. His war record began with the campaign against Napoleon in Syria. His greatest ambition is to stack age against flaming youth by playing golf with Rockefeller, and he would not mind a tree-sitting contest with John Voorheea, the 101-year-old president of the American Board of Education.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 19
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150AN OLD TURK’S BOAST Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 19
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