Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tinker, sputtery holler guy of baseball's immortal Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, confined to a wheel chair since his left leg was amputated 18 months ago, entered an Orlando, Fla. nursing home for "closer supervision of his diet...
...five games (said Joe: "Best pitcher I ever saw"). After dropping a 13-inning, 1-0 pitching duel to Paige, Dizzy Dean paid Satchel a dizzying tribute: "Me and Satch could win 60 games in one season." (To a reporter, Satchel Paige once confided the secret of his success: "Diet. I eat only fried foods...
After 45, one out of every four people in the U.S. suffers from high blood pressure. Doctors, who know neither the cause nor the cure, have tried everything from diet to psychoanalysis. In no other disease, says Dr. William Goldring of New York University, have so many different treatments been tried. Last week he reported in The American Journal of Medicine: "The history of therapy in hypertensive disease is replete with instances of unwarranted enthusiasms and baseless claims...
...Rice diet? Dr. Goldring believes that experiments with this diet have proved nothing at all. Low salt diet? "A treatment of doubtful value." Sympathectomy (cutting nerves leading to the body's small blood vessels)? It has not yet been shown to have much effect, but is "a highly desirable clinical experiment." Removal of one kidney? Only for conditions that would make surgeons take it out anyway...
...barrage of buffets and catered meals came at the traditional three times per diem in Lowell, the Union, the Block-house, Mem Hall, the Harvard Club, and the Hotel Somerset with the diet ranging from Dublin stew to roast beef. The food never ran out although at times fraudulent reunions and uninvited guests almost outnumbered the genuine articles. Led by hopeful Olympic oarsmen, a horde of disguised undergraduates lunched Tuesday on seafood Newburgh at Lowell...