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Though doctors are not yet sure that lowering the amount of cholesterol in a patient's blood will help to protect him against heart attacks, they are willing to try almost anything to find out. At Los Angeles, Dr. Henry Buchwald, 31, of the University of Minnesota's famed pioneering department of surgery, told the Heart Association that an operation on the small bowel may be the most effective way to lower the blood's content of cholesterol permanently...
...operation depends on a set of strange biochemical facts. Whether or not a man eats foods that contain cholesterol, his body manufactures the stuff every day. Much of it passes into the bloodstream through the filtering system in the wall of the lower third of the small bowel. Dr. Buchwald's idea was to cut this part of the small gut out of the digestive circuit, leaving much of the cholesterol no place to go except through the large bowel, to be excreted...
...joke was lost on the FBI director. But Buchwald has never been known to worry about the sensitivity of his subjects. One day he dreamed up an interview with a Presidential Special Representative and asked this functionary how he got his job. "It's not easy," replied the P.S.R. "First you make a few speeches criticizing Administration foreign policy. Then you write a few articles for magazines telling how it is to work for President Kennedy, and then you release a story to the press that you're going to be fired. The President is then obligated...
...Pushover." In his new role as political humorist, Art Buchwald takes pains to stay aloof from official Washington. "I feel a pundit like me shouldn't see people," says Buchwald, who has yet to meet the President-or want to. "It only confuses me. When you talk to Senators and Congressmen, you get the impression they are working, and you know it isn't true. And people have a tendency to win you over with flattery. I'm a pushover. I figure a guy who likes my column...
Plenty of guys are not all bad. Three U.S. Congressmen have read samples of his work into the Congressional Record; President Kennedy, who threw the Herald Tribune out of the White House,* went right on reading Buchwald in the Washington Post. In his one year in Washington, Buchwald has added 75 newspapers to his syndication and doubled his income, to $80,000 a year. By a considerable margin, that makes Art Buchwald the most successful humorous columnist...