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...inner life, and to get, if possible, the best of both worlds. A deformed foot and excess weight stood in his way, so at 19 he grimly started training. "I have lost 18 LB in my weight ... by violent exercise and Fasting ... I wear seven Waistcoats and a greatcoat, run, and play at cricket in this Dress, till quite exhausted by excessive perspiration, and the Hip Bath daily; eat only a quarter of a pound of Butcher's Meat in 24 hours, no Suppers or Breakfast, only one Meal a day; drink no malt liquor, but a little Wine...
...drunkenness (in fact, after his first wife's death he rarely drank). But by now he had made himself almost oblivious of the outside world ("I rarely know who's President," he said). One who saw him trudging through the snow "like Hamlet in a greatcoat" said: "I have never yet beheld a sadder [face...
...night with cabinet ministers, military chiefs, economists and atomic experts summoned to 10 Downing Street to brief him on "the whole field" of Anglo-American and world problems. Then, one day this week, Winston Churchill bundled his greatcoat about him and sailed on the Queen Mary for his first visit to the U.S. since 1949. With him, their briefcases bulging, were 35 ministers and advisers, including Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden; Lord Ismay, Secretary for Commonwealth Relations; Lord Cherwell, boss of Britain's atomic energy program; two of the three British chiefs of staff...
...railroad siding, General Vladimir Petrov, chief of Russian rail transportation in Berlin, sweated in his greatcoat as he directed other Russian officers who hooked engines to stalled freight cars. In its second week, the railroad workers' strike against their Communist bosses had effectively tied up Berlin rail transport...
...white dawn of a Minnesota winter day, goateed Dr. William F. C. Heise put on his homespun suit, wing collar and black bow tie, and was helped into his greatcoat by his wife. One of the boys helped him hitch up the horses. When the doctor set off in the sleigh, two boys went along, whipping the horses through the big drifts. It was an emergency surgery case. Operating on his patient on a farmhouse kitchen table, by the light of kerosene lamps, Dr. Heise was glad to have his rugged sons on hand as assistants. Driving home afterward, they...