By W. C. Stevenson and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, February 2 , 1946P. 13 Advertisement in a Surrey Newspaper: "Young lady, aged six and a half years, who has just returned from America and knows all the answers, seeks a governes willing to learn".
"I met an old lady, aged about 85, the other day, who said: 'When I was a little girl I used to hide behind the sofa when I saw you!'".
One of her biographers says that I, at twenty, proposed marriage to the lady, aged forty-three.
The age of patients at the start of the study period ranged from 15 49 years (median 23 years) with one lady aged 65 years.
The Duke testified that he did indeed give money to 'people who are not as fortunate as I am', including ladies who needed help in furnishing their flats, but the judge asked rather sharply: 'What sort of age were they - young ladies, middle- aged ladies or elderly ladies?' and the Duke conceded that they tended to be young.
The ladies, ages 45 to 66, have also posed nude for an advertisement for laundry detergent, which was featured on enormous billboards in London and other cities.
Now, Broadway has always been somewhat elastic on leading ladies' ages; The Sound of Music, with its teenaged heroine, was written for Mary Martin at 45.
That painting, "Portrait of a Lady, Aged 62" (1632), sold for $28.6 million.
The clear star was Rembrandt's "Portrait of a Lady, Aged 62" (1632), bought for $28.6 million by Robert Noortman, a dealer based in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Highlights include a group of old master paintings, to be sold on Dec. 13, that include Rembrandt's "Portrait of a Lady, Aged 62," signed and dated 1632.
