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Show Oldsters Advise On Long Life Bobby sockers and their boy companions in jive may yet have new standards in their youthful role of keeping up with the times. They'll find, for one thing, if current trends among the oldsters mean anything, that the spirit of youth has become an American habit defiant of age and promises more cooperation than criticism in later generations. So it seems now that an 80-year old westerner finds himself fully confident and competent back of the controls of an airplane, and a lady only ten years younger, feels equal to New Y0rk traffic on her motor bike. The young will also find that the preservation of youth, apparently appar-ently based on old-fashioned ideas, is helping to make life interesting to the end as was demonstrated recently at a New York party. The youngsters might find new lessons in the older ideas about matrimony in such advise as that given at the New York party by Joseph Forstadt, 88, who was among 33 couples celebrating marriages mar-riages still in effect after periods ranging from 50 to 72 years. The Forstadts, holding the record in the group, were married in Poland 72 years ago. When asked the secret behind this long life together, Forstadt suggested that all marriages be based on the idea that the couples should "love each other." Then he added: "If a man doesn't get married, mar-ried, he is making the biggest mistake mis-take of his life." |