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...Gashouse Gang and the Dean boys, whose strong right arms used to burn up the league. The once feeble Phillies have fooled everyone and ice-picked their way into contention with a surprisingly potent combination of slap hitters and speedball pitchers. Milwaukee's Braves, despite their unhappy habit of losing the big ones, seem to be training down into fighting trim for the decisive half of the season. Even the sixth-place Giants have come on so fast that their fans are talking of 1951, when a midsummer spurt shot them...
Quit Smoking? Even after a man has been a heavy cigarette smoker for many years, he can still reduce his risk of premature death by kicking the habit, declared Hammond and Horn. After a man had been off the weed for a year or more, his prospects improved; among men who had quit light smoking (less than a pack a day) ten or more years previously, the death rate from most causes was scarcely greater than among lifetime nonsmokers; ten years after heavier smoking, it was 50% greater-and markedly higher from lung cancer...
...Berger offered a diagnosis: many of the nation's athletes, from milers to football pros to schoolboy second basemen, are gobbling "pep pills" containing stimulating, habit-forming drugs like amphetamine, commonly known as "dexies" or "bennies." Prodded by Berger, the A.M.A. voted to investigate the "indiscriminate use of these agents, particularly in relation to athletic programs...
Perhaps the Dean was trying to say that there is a pattern of life which is contagious, a way of thinking and feeling which will occasionally rub off if there is sufficient enforced exposure, and that in some mysterious way people will be the better for acquiring this habit. At least this seems to be the theory behind both the maze of often contradictory demands made upon Harvard undergraduates, and the claims made by administrators...
...Arbor, Mich., Mrs. Lucy Wireman, 30, denying that she tried to kill her husband, who was hospitalized with a severe case of arsenic poisoning, admitted to police that she had been spiking his beer with rat poison for four years but only "to cure him of the drinking habit...