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Precollege drinking is especially worrisome given a central finding of recent alcohol research. Dr. Hoover Adger, professor and pediatrician at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., has found that children who start drinking before age 15 are five times more likely to be alcohol dependent as adults. According to other studies, kids who start drinking early are also 10 times likelier to be involved in a fight after consuming alcohol, seven times likelier to be involved in a car accident and 12 times likelier to be injured. "Clearly, there is a huge benefit to delaying the first drink," says Adger...
Other researchers are confirming the primacy of the parent in keeping kids off alcohol. "If you look at two subsets," says Adger, "young people with good parental monitoring and those without, the difference in alcohol use is staggering." Among kids whose parents stay on top of their behavior, only about 10% drink at all, never mind drinking excessively, he says. That may seem an obvious finding. Still, it's reassuring to know that such a commonsense approach can yield such extraordinary results...
...naval aviator, then had a series of air commands until he was given the new Atlantic Patrol Force last year. Characteristically, he did not fare so well on shore duty, when he was first Assistant Chief, and later Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics (after famed Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett went down with the dirigible Akron...
...elected Bertrand James Perry after the death of William Henry Sargeant last December. Hartford's Phoenix Mutual picked Arthur M. Collens, a clergyman's son, who had been vice president under the late Archibald Ashley Welch. Insurance tragedy of the year befell Penn Mutual's William Adger Law, who was accidentally shot and killed by his good friend Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., on a North Carolina hunting trip last winter (TIME, Feb. 6). Mr. Law's successor was William Harmstead Kingsley, who started in the company as an office...
Died. William Adger Law, 71, president of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.; of a gunshot wound; in Greensboro...