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Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, 67-year-old Cornell University chemist, dislikes doctors as scientists. His immediate reason is that they refuse to concede that he has discovered an elixir of long life, a panacea for insomnia, alcoholism and sciatica, a preventive of "nervous breakdowns," hardening of the arteries and common colds, a cure for manic depressive insanity and epilepsy...
...many as 36 holes of golf in a day, dancing in cabarets until 4 o'clock in the morning and supporting a reputation for scrupulous promptness by carrying two watches. In his elaborate apartment over the Lyceum Theatre he sleeps on the floor because beds give him insomnia. His brother Charles went down on the Lusitania...
That the astute gentlemen who represent American High Finance find themselves increasingly subject to dizziness, fainting spells, and insomnia is certainly no cause for wonder. Nor will Pepso, Postum, or Sanka afford them any relief, for down in Washington the realistically-minded Mr. Pecora continues to dissect, with gusto, their jowly leaders, and after every such operation their brains are freighted with dismal adumbrations...
...this time. As it grows clearer that the budget will have to be balanced, and as it becomes equally clear that no group in France will consent to increased direct taxation, flight from the gold standard and subsequent inflation may appear the only resort,--a thought which is causing insomnia to spread like the plague through the ranks of the rentiers...
...reappearing themes run through his Journal: insomnia and work, habits he never shook off. "Last night I had what I call a goodish night for me. 12.30 a. m. to about 2.55 a. m. Then about 3.15 a. m. to 5.45 a. m. Then a few short snoozes, totalling perhaps 40 minutes at the very most. In all 5½ hours." In 1926 he "contracted" with himself to write 365,000 words during the year-an average of 1,000 words a day-fulfilled the contract by December 20. Whenever his ideas gave out he would go for an "idea...