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...week's few really engaging news items, permitting escape from Watergate, involves Douglas Stewart McKelvy, a Yale man who liked his liquor, his fellow topers and his own boozy sense of humor. When he died on March 14 of a liver ailment, at age 41, he left a will that extended his benevolence, posthumously, to all three. Along with bequests to his two children, he donated $6,000 to each of two favorite East Side Manhattan bars "to defray the cost of liquid refreshments for their patrons until such sums shall be exhausted." A millionaire by inheritance ("He didn...
...becomes an ordeal. Turning a doorknob sends twinges of pain through the forearm. Swinging a racket at a tennis ball-especially if the ball hits off center-causes a sensation that some players compare with being hit in the elbow by a hammer. These are all symptoms of an ailment that has long been familiar to doctors and athletes but is now becoming epidemic in America: tennis elbow...
...tearing away, of the ligaments and tendons from their bony moorings. But gout or other arthritic disease, as well as softening of the cartilage-a normal result of the aging process-can also contribute to it. Indeed, tennis elbow is often an affliction of the aging athlete. The ailment rarely affects anyone under 30; most of its victims are over...
...tendency to hit the ball incorrectly can all contribute to tennis elbow. He recommends exercises to strengthen arm muscles and lessons that will improve stroking and serving, thus reducing shock to the arm. In support of his treatment, he notes that professionals seldom suffer from tennis elbow;* the ailment is endemic among once-a-week players and hackers...
...suspended animation or just postponed putrefaction. If she failed to revive when thawed a century later, the question of the doctor's liability by then likely would be moot, unless he too had been frozen successfully and subsequently revived. Suppose no cure had been discovered yet for his ailment, could he be brought back nevertheless ahead of time and made to stand trial? If he were able to show at his trial that the prosecution knew she died from causes unrelated to her suspension, could the prematurely thawed sick doctor then sue for malicious melting...