Second Prime

Thanks to medicine (and medicine's pals) more people reach old age nowadays --even in benighted Europe. Dr. Martin Gumpert, 62, looks on the bright side of that fact. Old age is not always second childhood, says he. "There is often, instead, a second prime." In this week's New York Times Magazine, Gumpert lists some of Europe's prime oldsters. Among them:

VITTORIO EMANUELE ORLANDO, 91, sole surviving member of the Versailles "Big Four," active lawyer and member of the Italian Senate, who still works ten hours a day.

BENEDETTO CROCE, 85, Italian philosopher, who eats no meat.

VISCOUNT SAMUEL, 80, onetime British High Commissioner of Palestine, who has just written a book on science, philosophy and religion.

EDOUARD HERRIOT, 79, leader of the French Radical Socialists, president of the last National Assembly and eternal mayor of Lyon, who works 20 hours a day (he says).

BERTRAND RUSSELL, 79, who complains that he cannot walk more than five miles at a stretch.

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