Word: ails
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...remained intensely private. Associates regarded him as brilliant-but austere, humorless and egotistical. "Medicine was his life," said Samm Sinclair Baker, who co-authored the book. But Tarnower also hunted big game in Africa, birds in the Carolinas and Newfoundland and went fly-fishing in Iceland and Scotland. Above ail, he was fond of giving small, elegant dinner parties at his brick house, which overlooked a duck pond and a statue of Buddha. Twice a day he weighed himself to make sure he stayed at 174 Ibs., but he rarely had to diet. He once explained: "My cravings...