Word: heart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front of the ramshackle farmhouse where the girl lives, and he confesses, in a long, anguished monologue, the most tormenting of his guilty secrets. This scene and the one that follows and resolves it are the best parts of the evening; once Jim Tyrone begins to open his heart, A Moon for the Misbegotten becomes and stays interesting. But somehow it never becomes as powerful or haunting as might be expected from the combination of this author and these themes. The old O'Neill faults, on the other hand, are much in evidence: the play is rambling, uneven, unfocussed...
...remaining stories, the department of nutrition will study the relation of nutrition to obesity and heart disease...
What factors are suspected of contributing to Western man's soaring death rate from heart and artery disease? Personality and behavior are emerging as increasingly .important. This week San Francisco's Dr. Meyer Friedman told the American Heart Association in Philadelphia of a link connecting an individual's behavior in a stressful occupation, through hormone channels, to the vital arteries that supply the heart. In the report, go-getters come off with a poor prognosis...
Internist Friedman and Partner Ray Rosenman had already shown that hard-driving editors, ad men, sales managers and men in similar competitive careers have more cholesterol in their blood, shorter clotting time and more heart-artery disease than men of more relaxed temperaments, in less exacting jobs (TIME, Nov. 3, 1958). This was true even when the tranquil men ate as much animal fat, smoked as much, and got as little exercise as the climbers. Dr. Friedman suspected that taut emotions worked on the arteries through hormones. But which? And was it a 24-hour process, or did it happen...
...adrenaline jumped 86% above night readings, as against 36% for the comparison group. With noradrenaline, said Dr. Friedman, the jump was still more pronounced: 173% compared with 64%. In large amounts, both these hormones (and especially noradrenaline) might well lead to damaging wear and tear on the heart and arteries...