In "Theresienstadt Questions," also by Strauss, an arrival encounters an old-timer: Man: "I have just arrived in town".
Even the old-timers, men who have borne the brunt of national convention battles for many years, confess today that they are as much in the dark as they were yesterday.
Only a few old-timers, men with long beards and women hunched over low from a lifetime of toiling, remember the day that the Fascists trucked a giant granite obelisk away from Aksum.
It was mesmerizing watching festival old-timers, men in beards and women in long country hair, going around meeting friends and acquaintances.
I also liked OLD TIMER and LOST CAUSE.
"Hey, old timer!" he shouted.
Just five days later, on Old Timers Day at Yankee Stadium, public address man Bob Sheppard announced to the crowd that Martin would return as their manager for the 1980 season, stunning players, the press and fans.
But then I get chatting to cross-dresser and Boat old-timer Doris, a man in his 50s who wears fetching neon-orange hot pants and multi-colored braids in his hair.
