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...pounds are sustained by the appetite of a longshoreman. She eats five or six meals a day, takes three vitamin pills, and is a chain drinker of chocolate milk shakes, which are delivered almost hourly to her dressing room. "Fragility, hah!" snorts Trainer Vincenzo Celli, "she has a Rolls-Royce powerhouse constitution...
...tried all my life to drink," Helen Hayes told a Manhattan interviewer, "and I don't like it. I consort with nobody but drinkers. I married a good two-fisted drinker. Once I felt I had found something I could drink-vodka. But it was the same as with every other drink. I just got sleepy and had to be taken home...
...psychopath with normal intelligence anxious to get into the Army may, in his few minutes with a psychiatrist at the induction center, fool him completely. But draft-board members in a small community may know that he is a heavy drinker, or has attacked girls, or never keeps a job, or is a thief. In the Army such a man will sometimes win a medal through sheer love of action. More often he is the man who is A.W.O.L. With his quick suggestibility he spreads rumors. He may even sell out to the enemy...
...year, argued that a ration of one pound every five weeks would not be so bad. (He did not point out that his statistics were based on total population, including adults who do not drink coffee and children under 15, who will get none under rationing.) But every coffee drinker knew that one cup a day represented a drastic cut. The panic buying went on, with no signs of stopping until shelves were bare. In some places anti-hoarders even began picketing the coffee queues-quite in vain...
Another group of men unable to enter the School this year are holders of Rockefeller Fellowships, many of whom used to come from foreign countries. According to Cecil K. Drinker, Dean of the School, however, an increasing enrollment from Central and South America is expected...