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changes will be phased in over a long period of time (as happened in the 1980s) to give people a chance to adapt to them. Back to the phase-in of the age-65 to age 67 retirement age. Here is the way it was set up. The retirement age remained at 65 for anyone born before 1938. But for people born in 1938, the retirement age was bumped up to age 65 and 2 months. For people born in 1939, it was 65 and 4 months. And the retirement age continued to go up in twomonth increments until we reached people born in 1943. They had to be 66 to get full Social Security benefits. And for reasons I’m not entirely sure of, the reform commission decided the age should plateau at age 66 for the next 11 years. In other words, the retirement age is 66 for anyone born between 1943 and 1954. That means for the past decade or so, I’ve been able to tell most of my readers that their retirement age is 66. I usually didn’t have to use the rather awkward phrase “full retirement age” because I could just say 66. But now we are coming out of that 11-year hiatus, and the retirement age starts creeping up again. So, people born in 1955 have to be 66 and 2 months to get full benefits. People born in 1956 have to be 66 and 4 months. And once again, the age continues to climb in two-month increments until we get to people born in 1960 and later who have to be 67 to get full benefits. So, the reason I have been dreading 2021 is that people born in 1955 are reaching full retirement age in 2021. And again, those folks have to be 66 and 2 months to collect benefits. That means for the next half-decade or so, instead of simply saying, “When you reach age 66, this or that will happen,” I am going to have to say, “When you reach your full retirement age, this or that will happen.” And then I’m probably going to have to explain what I mean by “full retirement age,” because lots of people aren’t familiar with it. Oh, well, who said the life of a Social Security columnist was simple?! And now here are some questions from people in the emerging 66-plus retirement catego-

ry. Q: I was born in 1955. I will turn 66 on March 1, 2021. But I know that to get my full benefit, I must be 66 and 2 months, which will be May 1, 2021. I want my full retirement benefit. So, when I file, do I put down March 1 as my starting date and let the SSA computers figure out my full age? Or do I put down May 1? Or because I know the May check will come in June, do I put down June 1? A: None of the above. You will indicate April as your starting month. (For Social Security benefit starting purposes, you don’t worry about days, just the month you want your checks to start.) Also, you don’t worry about when the check will actually show up in your bank account. You just worry about which month you want to be your first month of eligibility for Social Security checks. And if you want your full retirement rate, you normally would indicate May. But in your case, we have an additional twist. There is a common law (not a Social Security law) that says you legally attain your age on the day before your actual birthday. So, you will legally reach age 66 and 2 months not on May 1 but on April 30. Because you reach FRA on that last day of April, you will indicate April as the month you want your benefits to start. Q: I was born in Februar y 1959. So, my full retirement age will be age 66 and 10 months. But I want to start my benefits at age 62. Do I have to be 62 and 10 months to do that?

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figuring your adjusted gross income. How to Calculate To help you with the calculations, get a copy of IRS Publication 915 “Social Security and Equivalent Railroad Retirement Benefits,” which provides detailed instructions and worksheets. You can download it at IRS.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ p915.pdf or call the IRS at 800-829-3676 and ask them to mail you a free copy.

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Is Social Security Income Taxable? DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: I hope you can clear up a question I have about Social Security payments. My understanding is that a portion of my Social Security benefits may be taxable when I retire. I don't know how this is figured in and would appreciate knowing how I can calculate this. -- Ready to Retire

After you do the calculations, the IRS says that if you’re single and your total income from all of the listed sources is: • Less than $25,000, your Social Security will not be subject to federal income tax. • Between $25,000 and $34,000, up to 50 percent of your Social Security benefits will be taxed at your regular income-tax rate. • More than $34,000, up to 85 percent of your benefits will be taxed.

12 percent or 22 percent of your total benefit payment withheld. If you subsequently decide you don’t want the taxes withheld, you can file another W-4V to stop the withholding. If you have additional questions on taxable Social Security benefits call the IRS help line at 800-829-1040. State Taxation In addition to the federal government, 13 states – Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia – tax Social Security benefits to some extent too. If you live in one of these states, check with your state tax agency for details. For links to state tax agencies see TaxAdmin.org/state-tax-agencies. * * *

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Dear Ready: Whether or not you’ll be Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit required to pay federal income tax on your Social SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Security benefits will depend on your income and If you’re married and filing jointly and the Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book. filing status. About 35 percent of Social Security total from all sources is: TUES., APRIL 24 recipients have total incomes high enough • Less than $32,000, your Social Security MON., NOV. 30 to trigger federal income tax on their benefits. won’t be taxed. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pri w carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours • Between $32,000 and $44,000, up to 50 Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corre figure out if your benefits with will be your TidbitsTo representative immediately changes or corrections. percent of your Social Security benefits will be Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-3 taxable, you’ll need to add up all of your taxed. 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 "Back in the day when Women's “provisional income,” which includes wages, • More than $44,000, up to 85 percent of Lib was in full swing I was the taxable and non-taxable interest, dividends, your benefits will be taxed. first one to burn my bra. It took pensions and taxable retirement-plan the fire department two distributions, self-employment, and other taxable If you’re married and file a separate Brian Henderson days to put it out." Handi-Bars income, plus26x halfdisc. your annual Social Security return, you probably will pay taxes on your 1/12 pg BW -- Dolly Parton 1/12 pg 4C 26x disc. arefully. Double check:certain  Phone Number(s)  in Spelling  Prices  Hours benefits, used benefits. Dec. 6, 2020minus Vol. 16 - No.deductions 50

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I have enclosed a drawing of the name on the face of an antique mantle clock that belonged to my father 75 years ago. I was told the clock is a tambour style. It has an eight-day spring wound movement, Westminster chimes that strike on the half hour and hour and Arabic numerals rather than Roman numerals. The frame is dark wood and sets on little round feet. It is in excellent condition. What can you tell me about my clock?

ANTIQUE -- OR -JUNQUE by Anne McCollam Creators News Service

Collectors Love Eros Ansonia Clock Company was located in Brooklyn, New York.

I have the first four volumes of the hard cover “Eros” magazine. It was published in 1962 by Ralph Ginzburg. I enclosed a copy of the cover of Volume III that featured Marilyn Monroe. The photos were taken by photographer Ben Stern, six weeks before Monroe died. The magazine is 13 inches by 10 inches in size, and all four volumes are in ver y good condition. What would a collector pay for my magazines? Thank you for any information you can give me.

Your mantle clock was made by Ansonia Clock Company in Brooklyn, N.Y., around 1925. The case/frame is probably mahogany. Wood tambour mantel clocks were very popular in the early 1900s. The value of your clock would probably be $175 to $225.

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Eros Magazine was published in 1962 by Ralph Ginzburg.

* On Jan. 7, 1789, Congress sets today as the date by which states are required to choose electors for the country’s first-ever presidential election. A month later, on Feb. 4, George Washington was elected president by state electors and sworn into office April 30. * On Jan. 10, 1901, a drilling derrick at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas, produces an enormous gusher of crude oil, signaling the advent of the American oil industry. The geyser flowed at an initial rate of 100,000 barrels a day. Today, only a few oil wells still operate in the area. * On Jan. 5, 1920, the New York Yankees announce the purchase of heavy-hitting outfielder George Herman “Babe” Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for $125,000. Ruth had played six seasons with the Red Sox, leading them to three World Series titles. * On Jan. 6, 1936, Porky Pig makes his world debut in a Warner Brothers cartoon, “Gold Diggers of ‘49.” When Mel Blanc joined Warner Brothers the following year, he became the famous voice behind Porky as well as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester and Tweety. * On Jan. 8, 1966, ABC’s rock and roll TV variety show “Shindig” airs its last episode. The show had debuted in September 1964, featuring acts including the Everly Brothers, the Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys.

Much of the content of Ginzburg’s magazines, Eros, was shocking and titillating erotica for the time, but quite mild by today’s fare. Eros was the Greek god of love, and his magazines were devoted to stories and articles about love and sex. Ginzburg attempted to pedal subscriptions to his new publication by sending unsolicited racy requests to possible upscale buyers/readers. A myriad of those who received the mailings were outraged and reported the solicitations to the post office. The Supreme Court declared the material was obscene. Ginzburg was arrested and ultimately sentenced and convicted to the federal crime of using the United States Postal Service to send “prurient and pandering” advertising through the mail. The demise of his quarterly magazine can be attributed to the extremely high cost of publishing and his legal and financial woes. Ginzburg was sentenced to five years, but served only nine months in prison. Your four volumes are in demand by collectors and would probably fetch at least $250 in an antiques shop, or possibly more at auction or on

* On Jan. 9, 1972, a fire breaks out aboard the lavish Queen Elizabeth, and by the next morning the world’s largest passenger ship lies in a wreck on the bottom of Hong Kong harbor. Launched in 1938, the Queen Elizabeth steamed across the ocean as a troop transport during World War II. * On Jan. 4, 1999, 11 nations adopt a single currency, the euro, and “locked in” their exchange rates relative to each other and to the euro. At midnight, their currencies officially ceased to exist. (c) 2020 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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film to be banned. The publicity machine was running full-tilt, and the film, when it was finally released, was a blockbuster success. • On opening night, skywriters were hired to grace the California skies with two large connected circles with dots placed in their centers. The whole publicity effort was billed as “the bra that saved Hollywood.” • Jane Russell, basically an unknown before this film, suddenly saw her career rocket to incredible heights. She later became the spokesperson for Playtex, a job she held until 1986. Years later she revealed in her autobiography that she had found the Howard Hughes bra so uncomfortable that she had only worn it once in the privacy of her dressing room. Thereafter, she shored up her own bra with layers of cloth and wore it instead. No one was ever the wiser. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

• The inflatable bra came out in 1952 and was called the Very Secret bra. It had expandable air pockets that would help every woman achieve “the perfect contour.” They could be discreetly inflated with a hidden hand pump. Use of this product gave rise to reports of embarrassed women whose breasts literally exploded while wearing them as passengers on poorly pressurized airplanes. Pinning on a corsage also became a challenge requiring caution. • Hindah Miller and Liza Rosenthal were friends who enjoyed jogging but didn’t like the lack of support their normal bras offered. Lingerie stores had nothing to offer them, so they decided to make their own. In 1977 the two women stitched together two jock straps and tested it out. Not only did it work, but their original prototype is now displayed in the Smithsonian. They named their product the Jogbra. • In 1978 the two inventors sold $3,840 worth of their bras to sporting apparel stores in five states. In 1997, Jogbra sales topped $65 million across 22 countries. They were bought out by Playtex in 1990, and Sara Lee subsequently bought out Playtex. Sara Lee was a sponsor of the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 and they made sure the U.S. women’s teams were all outfitted with their Jogbra product. 

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Don’t Hit Down

When the majority of amateurs misshit iron shots, they’re often told, “You didn’t hit down on it!” The implication is that the clubhead did not travel on a descending angle of attack whereby the ball is struck first and the ground second. Many new golfers have the impression that you have to “get under the ball” in order to create a decent shot. This will result in an attempt to hit the ground first or pick the ball off the turf without any ground contact. Rather than hitting down or getting under, try the concept of swinging through. Since the objective of an iron ADVERTISING PROOF strike is to hit the ground past the ball, many golfers need Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. toPhone focusNumber(s) on swinging through Please review carefully. Double check:   Spelling  Prices  Hours the ball, almost as if to let it Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. get in the way. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Picture a tee stuck in the ground just in front of the ball, low enough that the clubhead has to hit the ground to knock it out. Make the swing pass through the ball and the tee, with hopes to clip the tee and brush the grass. Divots should be shallow as if the depth of a bacon strip, not a pork chop.

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JasonJenkins Jenkinswas wasaa 16-year 16-year member member of Jason of the the Jim JimMcLean McLeanGolf Golf School School teaching teaching staff staff.and He was was one one of ofGOLF GOLFMagazine’s Magazine’sTop Top100 100 Teacher Nominees 1999-2010. He was named one of the Golf Teacher Nominees 1999-2010 and has been named one of the Digest Top Teachers in California in 2011. Golf Digest Top Teachers in California. Jason teaches at GOLFTEC CENTER Indio. at Contact him at jjenkins@golftec.com ContactinJason 760-485-2452 or devgolfinstr@gmail.com

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