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...doctor who believes that Franklin's dictum can come true is Manhattan's famed Psychosomaticist Flanders Dunbar. But how? It occurred to her that one way to find out was to study men and women who have defied the aging process by living a hundred years or more, see what had made them tick so long. By questionnaire and personal interviews, Dr. Dunbar and her collaborators quizzed some 300 oldsters, 20% of all the living white centenarians born in the U.S. (excluding others because of the difficulty of confirming birth records). Last week, before the Third Congress...
...Different Kind." Nearly all the centenarians had always slept well and enjoyed good health. Asked "about how many days of your life have you spent in bed? Give reasons," one old lady crossed out the "about" and wrote: "Exactly 45 days. Reason, nine children." Adds Dr. Dunbar: "Centenarians, as contrasted with sufferers from 'diseases of old age,' appear to be a different kind of human being." Most have reasonably good vision and hearing, some are amazingly active, and many have a number of their own teeth...
Navy medals and citations went to Edward H. Sussenguth, Jr. '54, Rodman Dunbar Rhodes 1G, Robert C. Terry, Jr. '54, and Robert L. Jenkins...
Other speakers at the forum, which was sponsored by the Society for Minority Rights, were Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, and Dunbar Holmes '35, Boston attorney...
Death & Taxes. The Dunbar solicitors opened Sir Adrian's eyes to even more discouraging discoveries: two houses owned by the estate in England had been sold to meet death duties; most of the ?20,000 trust fund would have to go for the same cause. Only seven overgrown acres of the vast Scottish estate were still available for farming. Income and real-estate taxes would gobble up all but ?420 of the ?2,000 he would collect in rents from the rest of his holdings. With the mansion uninhabitable, the only shelter available to the new baronet...