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...enough, by Jackie Gleason, and where audiences might have arrived expecting a million laughs from the most celebrated buffoon ever to rise through U.S. television, they leave with a single, if surprised, reaction: inside the master jester, there is a masterful actor. Gleason, the storied comedian, egotist, golfer, and gourmand, mystic, hypnotist, boozer and bull slinger, is now emerging as a first-rank star of motion pictures...
...domo in charge of private railway cars for the White House and State Department. Reid's bipartisan White House favorites: Harry Truman and Grace Coolidge. Of Harry: "He got up every morning at 6, and we'd stop the train so he could take his walk." Of Gourmand Warren Gamaliel Harding: "He'd eat anything." Of Calvin Coolidge: "He never used to say much, except when he read the papers he'd grunt, 'I thought...
Promptly came indignant letters: "After four years of war here is a man who cultivates gastronomy. This man ran around Athens from one market to another, tried fish, vegetables, meat, chose with a gourmand's expertness the best there was to buy . . . then hurried home to fill his big belly. . . . It is very displeasing...
...statistics on which this conclusion is based are enough to take away a gourmand's appetite: "Those with 20% overweight show mortality approximately one-third higher than average; those with 30% overweight, approximately one-half higher; those with 50% overweight show mortality practically double that for average weight. . . . The mortality from coronary artery disease and other degenerative heart conditions among overweights is more than 1½ times that of average-weight men. . . . The most striking penalty for overweight is diabetes. The death rate from this disease among men 25% or more overweight [is] eight times as high as among...
...Enjoying Two Dinners, or Invention of the Stomach Pump, which shows a doctor perched on a chair, fountaining the bilge from an overstuffed gourmand with a four-ft. contraption resembling a tire pump. Others wait their turn. Cries one: "Be quick Dr. there is another glorious Dinner...