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Letting the rest of the world go by, Britain's ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and wife Clarissa basked on the sunny strand of New Zealand's subtropic Otehei Bay, a favorite operating base for deep-sea fishermen. Eden, still bedded periodically by his gall-bladder ailment, left Britain in mid-January...
...E.I.I." for tap-tap-tap. "E.I.I." stands for "emotionally induced illness," which Author Schindler, a Wisconsin M.D., declares to be responsible for more than 50% of all the sickness in the U.S. Schindler came to this conclusion by trial and error, and admits once ordering the removal of a gall bladder from a woman whose pains actually ceased only with the return of her soldier son. Psychosomatic medicine receives some strikingly visceral tributes from Schindler's subheads, e.g., "The Colon Is the Mirror of the Mind," "From the Emotions, Too, Stem Most Belches...
...university Dr. Graham made no more than perhaps a tenth of the income he could have commanded from fees. He became an outspoken and effective foe of such evils as fee splitting and ghost surgery. To his scientific achievements he soon added a dependable X-ray technique for diagnosing gall-bladder disease. But his most dramatic accomplishment did not come until...
...fame. He is brash and often tactless. He suffers from what was once described as a pre-Copernican ego, i.e., seeing the whole world revolve around him. The condition was described by his onetime mentor, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, with an expressive Jewish word that means cheek, nerve, monumental gall. "He has hutzpa," says Rodzinski, and illustrates what he means with the story of how Bernstein, a mere 35, dared to conduct Beethoven's sacrosanct Ninth Symphony with the great Santa Cecilia chorus in Rome. "And he had the nerve to move his hips in time to the music. Hutzpa...
which blossoms to wormwood and gall...