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Worn by overwork and "feeling much below par," Clare Boothe Luce, 53, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, flew home last week for a checkup at Manhattan's Doctors Hospital. Said her physician: "Mrs. Luce is suffering from a chronic enteritis, which appears to be related to an infection of the liver which she had while abroad. She has, as well, a moderately severe iron-deficiency anemia, probably due to the same cause. She received one transfusion . . . and will require others. I have advised the ambassador not to return to her post for about two months. At that time I would...
...based on the slander of provocateurs." In the strange dialectic of Communist Russia, yes was rapidly becoming no. An old Stalin-line man could no longer remain indifferent. Last week Tass News Agency reported the end. In his luxurious apartment, Alexander Fadeyev shot himself. The cause, said Tass, was chronic alcoholism and "grave mental depression...
Through the years local gourmets have made a variety of suggestions for relieving chronic indigestion and starvation, ranging from abolition to Hayes-Bickford. This year a low ebb in gastronomic satisfaction precipitated another investigation, by well-meaning, if hungry Student Council Members...
...Chronic heavy drinking can and does alter facial features; and it produces no Olympic winners, except in bobsledding. But an occasional beer is harmless. If legal restrictions were limited to heavy drinking, popular support might make effective enforcement more possible. If a large segment of bartenders' sales were made legal, they might join with the law in preserving the health of the beardless minor. And by robbing drinking of the romantic character given by its illegality, heavy consumption might decrease...
...make rather than criticisms. Montreal's famed Stressor Hans Selye (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950) flew in to declare his faith that physiological change is related to emotional disturbance. Recent research shows that three classes of hormones can create such varied "psychic" disorders as pathological confusion or excitement, chronic fatigue (neurasthenia), deep depression, psychoses or neuroses during pregnancy, convulsive seizures, paralytic "spells," and even degenerative conditions of the brain and central nervous system...