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Show Wonderful Years Chauncey M. Depew is 91 years old, and "Uncle Joe" ; Cannon 89. That si not much, in mere years. Any Galapagos j turtle can beat it, several times, and doubtless many men, in many ages, have lived uneventful lives as long, or longer. J But who ever lived 90 such years before? There were I never any 90 years like them to live, and few others, in these i 90 years, lived them all at the center of the stage or in the i boxes. A thousand years, in most of the life of humanity, I would have revealed a less varied spectacle. ! From a world just recovering from Napoleon to a world I just recovering from kaiserism ; from American the pioneer, to America the center; from the coach to the airplane; through the whole mechanical and industrial revolution; I through the era of most rapid expansion of human contracts ! and transformation of human life, these two men, ni their 1 respective ways played their large and active parts. Of much of their era, they are almost the only important ! survivors. May they both live to enjoy the spectacle through j a whole rounded century! |