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John was a scrawny smalltown boy troubled by asthma, psoriasis and a stammer, a trace of which persists to this day. He knew before his tenth birthday that he wanted to be a writer. He left his rural home for four years at Harvard, one at Oxford and two as a reporter for The New Yorker. Although he gave up his staff job, Updike and the magazine have remained best of friends. Fees paid for his fiction and other contributions over the years allowed Updike to keep on writing, freeing him from the need to look for teaching jobs...
...class of drugs known as beta blockers, which interfere with the nervous stimulation of the cardiovascular system (by blocking "beta receptors" on cells). Though widely used to treat high blood pressure, severe chest pain (angina) and to prevent second heart attacks, beta blockers can be dangerous for people with asthma, hay fever and some types of diabetes and heart conditions. "It would worry me considerably if propranolol were being taken on the street," says Dr. Robert Temple of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
...from Hazlehurst, Miss, (the scene of Crimes), her mother an amateur actress from down the road in Brookhaven (where Firecracker is set). "I was real shy when I was little," Henley says in a molasses drawl just slightly diluted by her years in Los Angeles. "I was sick with asthma. Spent a lot of time getting shots and laying in bed. At night, Mama'd come into my room and ask me why I was crying. I'd tell her I was pretending to be Heidi...
Another highly effective White House aide, Chief Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf, resigned last week. Friedersdorf apparently quit for personal reasons; he had been hospitalized by an asthma attack last summer and took a less hectic job as U.S. consul general in Bermuda. He was replaced by Kenneth Duberstein, one of his chief assistants, who had proved adept at lining up votes for Reagan's programs in the Democratic-controlled House. Nonetheless, a lobbyist with Friedersdorf's skill in wooing legislators is bound to be missed...
...expounds the latest theories on asthma; young Roosevelt's matriculation at Harvard is the occasion for an evocative set piece on undergraduate life in the 1870s; after the graduate becomes a New York assemblyman at the age of 23, McCullough weaves in a marvelous little essay on Tammany-style logrolling...