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...especially from cancer and heart disease. With a total of 11,870 deaths among the men (ages 50 to 70 when the study began in 1952), Drs. E. Cuyler Hammond and Daniel Horn were able to go far beyond the findings they had earlier reported (TIME, July 5, 1954 et seq.). From a mountain of crosschecked statistics submitted to the A.M.A. last week, they concluded: 1) all smoking shortens life; 2) cigarette smoking is by far the worst offender, and the risk goes up with the amount smoked...
Especially startling was the finding that, although the increased death rate from lung cancer was the most dramatic (TIME, March 7, 1949 et seq.), smoking may cause a far greater loss of life by speeding up the process of heart disease-where a relatively modest increase in the mortality rate means many more deaths because the disease is so much commoner...
...they would have fallen all over themselves to be friends." The most friendly folks he met aboard the Mary: "The stewards and the waiters." ∙∙∙ On his promise to be a good boy, Italy's charm-loaded Movie Director Roberto Rossellini (TIME, May 27 et seq.) got a three-month extension of his visa to stay in India, busied himself again by day shooting documentary films in the sweltering humidity of Bombay. As proof of his good intentions, Rossellini abandoned his suite in the Taj Mahal Hotel that connected with the suite of exotic Sonali Das Gupta...
...rushed to rebroadcast this week the suspenseful full-hour reconstruction of how Columbia Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez, a Basque, was kidnaped from Manhattan, spirited out of the country and apparently murdered because of his opposition to Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo (TIME, April 2, 1956 et...
...mark the end of an intellectual era-the era of Utopian belief in man's earthly salvation through socialism and sociology, related to the igth century evolutionary notion that history is a process of perpetual improvement. That era's brilliant, fashionable upper-class leftists-Auden, Ishenvood, Spender et al.-are dismissed by Amis and Co. as playboys on a slumming party. The "new men" have actually been poor, and understandably they smirk when they pick up the memoirs of a posh erstwhile pink like Philip Toynbee (son of A Study of History'> Arnold J.) and read...