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Only five years ago, Georgia-born William J. Cobb gave his weight as 802 lbs., billed himself as "Happy Humphrey, the World's Largest Wrestler," and won his matches by sitting on his opponents. Today, after learning to flatten his appetite instead of other wrestlers, Cobb weighs in at a svelte 232 lbs.-a staggering 570-lb. loss that may make an equally weighty contribution to modern dietetics...
...Cobb's reduction by more than two-thirds was engineered not out of solicitude for his opponents but by his desire to stay alive. In 1962, heart trouble slowed the happy warrior down; he became so short of wind that he had to sit down on two chairs after every ten steps. Manfully, he tried to curb his appetite; no longer did he wolf down 15 chickens at a sitting. But doctors said he needed stricter discipline. When he waddled into the Medical College of Georgia's Clinical Investigation Unit in Augusta to volunteer for obesity research...
...Exercise. Volunteer Cobb lived a carefully regulated life for the next 83 weeks. He was confined to the air-conditioned clinic, permitted no exercise (to avoid fluid loss through sweat), and given only measured amounts of food and water. Each day's intake was about 1,000 calories, but in 56-day cycles, he was shifted among...
...single, a stolen base, a sacrifice at just the right time. Shortstop Maury Wills at 32 is still the best base runner in the business: by last week, he had stolen 44 bases in 71 games-14 games ahead of his pace three years ago, when he broke Ty Cobb's 47-year-old big-league record by stealing 104 bases. Sighs Mets Manager Casey Stengel: "Those Dodgers are a running club. They hit and run. They run and hit. They bunt. They steal. They take chances." And they...
...both Macquarrie and Come respect the movement, and others feel that the process thinkers-such as Cobb, Union's Daniel Day Williams and Schubert Ogden of Perkins School of Theology-may be on the verge of an exciting event: the articulation of a U.S.-bred philosophic theology that might eventually develop into an alternative to that ubiquitous Teutonic import, existentialism...