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...A.M.A. Journal, Du Pont Statistician Sidney Pell and Physician C. Anthony D'Alonzo report that presidents, vice presidents and plant managers have an annual heart-attack rate of only 2.2 per 1,000 while the manual workers' rate is 3.2 Du Pont's clerical workers have a rate of 4.0 per 1,000. Among those listed as clerical workers, evidently, are many who have failed of promotion to executive status and are suffering the stress of frustration...
...Amos Alonzo Stagg, who was 96 when he appeared on Oct. 26, 1958. Runner-up: Grandma Moses...
Enter the villain (Keenan Wynn), a mustached miscreant named Alonzo Hawk who proposes a dastardly scheme to get rich quick: buy stock in glass companies, and then-heh-heh-heh-break every window in the world! But the professor proudly refuses, and jumps in his flivver. He doesn't want to miss The Big Game-and neither will any moviegoer who needs a good, old-fashioned locomotive laugh. It's a flubbergasser...
...four, I still might have become a good man." "I quit running at 95." "It was just as pleasant as a good restaurant." Who said which? These quotes, out of this week's TIME, were said (but not in the same order) by Jawaharlal Nehru, Pavel Popovich, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Matthew J. Culligan, Douglas MacArthur, Niccoló Tucci and Dwight Eisenhower. One way to find out is to try to match the quote with the speaker. Another way is to read this week's TIME...
...orders were issued in dead seriousness; yet no one lifted an eyebrow. For Coach Alonzo Smith ("Jake"') Gaither, 56. has been handing down such edicts ever since he showed up in Tallahassee in 1937 and began turning Florida A. & M. University into the nation's top all-Negro football school. "I've had my ups and downs," says husky Jake Gaither. "But they've been mostly ups. We've won 122 and lost 20. Bud Wilkinson at Oklahoma and I have the best records of any football coaches in the country, and I forget...