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Your Oct. 31 article on heart disease was excellent, but apt to mislead a good many people in various ways. You make out that our hectic way of life is the cause of it. The reason for our high percentage of deaths from heart disease is that we are very long-living people. The older a person is when he dies, the more likely he is to die of heart disease. You make out that we Americans have the highest percentage of deaths from heart disease of any country in the world. The Australians claim to be the laziest...
Queen of the Sciences. Once again religion has become intellectually respectable. "In my day." says David Webster, acting dean of men at Temple University, "we were apt to say that religion is a superstition." Today, says Chaplain Richard Unsworth of Smith College, "theology is no longer classed with domestic science as a subject not suited for a liberal arts college." Adds Bowdoin's William Geoghegan: "One average student was recently asked if he thought theology was the 'Queen of the Sciences.' He replied: 'I don't know, but I can see how it could...
...feels this can be all to the good. A crisis can shake the president out of his business-as-usual paths, force him to "reexamine what he has been doing and explore new routes to improve his business. It is in times of crisis that presidents are most apt to prove again why they became presidents...
...once threw a $50,000 party for some French theater people-and sadistic glooms. With Evelyn he combined them: he rented an entire castle in Austria to please her, and then burst into her chambers one night to beat her insensible with a horsewhip. In public he was apt to fall on his knees before her, while fashionable company stared, and blubber: "Her boofuls. What does her want?" Nevertheless, Harry had $40 million, and Evelyn married...
...case with the presentation portrait,* Sutherland's preparatory sketches were apt to please the critics who think painting should be true-to-art (by fulfilling certain "laws" for what makes a good picture) and displease the majority who feel that painting should be true-to-life (in the sense of showing what everyone can see for himself...