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...Foremost, perhaps, is: "Throw away the skillet and the deep-fat fryer." Dr. Jordan's aversion (she calls it a phobia) to frying is that it incorporates the fat more securely in the basic food so that the stomach has to work harder to digest it. Another injunction has been dubbed "Nap and nip." Hard-pressed executives, Dr. Jordan holds, should have a quiet lunch, free from stressful business talk, and a cat nap afterward; then they should have one or two highballs (she believes in tall, diluted drinks, is dead set against cocktails) to relax them before dinner...
Busmen are not the only ones who take busmen's holidays, according to Alsatian-born Author-Artist Tomi Ungerer. "Whatever your profession," he writes in Scope Weekly (a digest of medical news published for Upjohn Co.), "after some years of practice your mind is inevitably influenced. Soon every day's activities are considered from your own point of view, and even on holidays you can't stay away from routine obsessions. The meteorologist will keep searching the sky, and the geologist the earth. And it is the same for the physician." So Ungerer, who takes in vacation...
...just the man who needs protection most. King Sano's test smokes little more than half the cigarette's 85-mm. length, also measures only that amount of tar which dissolves in chloroform, misses a lot. The Foster D. Snell labs, which test for Reader's Digest, told the Blatnik subcommittee that the chloroform extraction method measures only 69% of the tar in smoke. On the other hand, Snell tests only 45 cigarettes of each brand (v. 100 to 200 per brand in some other tests), which competitors say are too few for statistical accuracy...
Died. J. P. McEvoy, 63, writer, world-roving editor for Reader's Digest; of a stroke; in New City, N.Y. Stocky, jaunty Joseph Patrick McEvoy wrote everything from Burma-Shave signs to Broadway shows (Allez-Oop, Stars in Your Eyes), from novels (Show Girl) to the story line of the comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach...
...catch my kids reading any of the condensed classics, I'll whack them with a rolled-up Readers Digest...