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There is no old age, only neglect, says Willy Blok Hanson by way of explanation for the remarkable life she leads at the age of 60. Dancer, choreograp(...)
There is no old age, only neglect, says Willy Blok Hanson by way of explanation for the remarkable life she leads at the age of 60. Dancer, choreograp(...)

There is no old age, only neglect, says Willy Blok Hanson by way of explanation for the remarkable life she leads at the age of 60. Dancer, choreograp(...)

Date9/28/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: There is no old age, only neglect, says Willy Blok Hanson by way of explanation for the remarkable life she leads at the age of 60. Dancer, choreographer, teacher, exercise guru, she and her students present an evening of dance Sunday.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0053009F
      Exercise or execution?: Willy Blok Hansen (top) is eternally young although she's 65 - but as she imparts the secret of youth to Frank Jones, he wonders if it's less painful to remain old
      Exercise or execution?: Willy Blok Hansen (top) is eternally young although she's 65 - but as she imparts the secret of youth to Frank Jones, he wonders if it's less painful to remain old
      Blok Hansen, Willy
      5/10/1982
      Demetrios Hatzis has a ball as he leads dancers of all ages in the Kalamatianos, a Greek folk dance, at a banquet in his honor sponsored by the Greek-Canadian Roumeli Association on Saturday night
      Demetrios Hatzis has a ball as he leads dancers of all ages in the Kalamatianos, a Greek folk dance, at a banquet in his honor sponsored by the Greek-Canadian Roumeli Association on Saturday night
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      11/19/1972
      Poor old mom, says Mary Astafooroff, right, who at age 60 has spent 14 years of her life in jail and has just returned from serving a month for rioting
      Poor old mom, says Mary Astafooroff, right, who at age 60 has spent 14 years of her life in jail and has just returned from serving a month for rioting
      Mahler, John
      5/10/1975
      Metro parks commissioner Tom Thompson leads 250 people on three mile walk along the Humber valley starting at 10 am Sunday. People of all ages joined (...)
      Metro parks commissioner Tom Thompson leads 250 people on three mile walk along the Humber valley starting at 10 am Sunday. People of all ages joined (...)
      Brennan, Pat
      4/16/1972
      Donald Peel: Old age is not the religious stage of life, the reverend says
      Donald Peel: Old age is not the religious stage of life, the reverend says
      Mahler, John
      10/4/1983
      Business is Booming, for Laurier Life and here's a deskful of new orders for the company's president, Ernest Brooker. With no salesmen and using only direct-mail promotion techniques, Laurier Life has found a big insurance market in areas - such as older clients - long-established firms sometimes neglect.
      Business is Booming, for Laurier Life and here's a deskful of new orders for the company's president, Ernest Brooker. With no salesmen and using only direct-mail promotion techniques, Laurier Life has found a big insurance market in areas - such as older clients - long-established firms sometimes neglect.
      Barkley, Harold
      3/1/1972
      Only the beginning: Xerox Canada president David McCamus, with model of $200 million North York project that will house head office, says company is coming of age
      Only the beginning: Xerox Canada president David McCamus, with model of $200 million North York project that will house head office, says company is coming of age
      Bock, Tony
      5/22/1984
      Vanessa Harwood: The dancer, who is leaving the National Ballet after 22 years, remembers wearing a hairpiece with a velvet hairband, mini skirts and gogo boots when she joined the company at age 17
      Vanessa Harwood: The dancer, who is leaving the National Ballet after 22 years, remembers wearing a hairpiece with a velvet hairband, mini skirts and gogo boots when she joined the company at age 17
      Harwood, Vanessa
      1/30/1987
      Facts of life: Life insurance companies consider age, sex and physical handicaps when setting rates, and industry needs relief from human rights laws which were written without regard to such facts of life, says industry's top spokemen Edward Crawford.
      Facts of life: Life insurance companies consider age, sex and physical handicaps when setting rates, and industry needs relief from human rights laws which were written without regard to such facts of life, says industry's top spokemen Edward Crawford.
      Beaty, Keith
      5/26/1980
      History of Neglect: Teenage girls at Vanier Centre often have blood-curdling histories of neglect, says superintendent
      History of Neglect: Teenage girls at Vanier Centre often have blood-curdling histories of neglect, says superintendent
      Loek, Dick
      2/21/1989
      An account of the captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, late of Kachecky in New-England: who, with four of her children, and servant-maid, was taken captive by the Indians, and carried into Canada Setting forth the various remarkable occurrances, sore trails, and wonderful deliverances which befel them after their departure, to the time of their redemption
      An account of the captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, late of Kachecky in New-England: who, with four of her children, and servant-maid, was taken captive by the Indians, and carried into Canada Setting forth the various remarkable occurrances, sore trails, and wonderful deliverances which befel them after their departure, to the time of their redemption
      Hanson, Elizabeth, 1684-1737
      1787
      If Deanna would delay her marriage until she was 25 years of age she could have three years of success in the Metropolitan opera. So says her astrolog(...)
      If Deanna would delay her marriage until she was 25 years of age she could have three years of success in the Metropolitan opera. So says her astrolog(...)
      Durbin, Deanna, 1921-2013
      6/17/1939