Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that doctors have made it possible for people to live longer, their next problem is to make old age tolerable. This week, in Live Long and Like It (Public Affairs Committee; 20?), a doctor whose specialty is old age suggested a few helpful hints. The author: Dr. C. Ward Crampton, 70, chairman of the New York County Medical Society's committee on geriatrics and gerontology...
...does not grow old in one package, says Dr. Crampton. A man of 65 may have a 40-year-old heart, 50-year-old kidneys, an 80-year-old liver, and try to live the life of a 30-year-old. A specialist should find out just where old age has got in its worst licks. The examination should include a search for damaged organs, and a psychological study of the patient's worries and hopes. Then the doctor should recommend "antiaging" devices. For instance, diet: at 60 most men need more protein, calcium, iron than...
...helpful friend." Doctors should tell their elderly patients whether a drink would help them (alcohol is a vasodilator, relaxing the coronary arteries) or hurt them (cocktails are bad for arthritics). Being overweight is not really a problem of old age, says Dr. Crampton, for fat men seldom live that long. But the public should put more of its money into research into chronic diseases, which make old age miserable. The U.S., says Dr. Crampton, has been spending $22 per death for cancer research, $13,000 per death for infantile paralysis, and only a few cents per victim for the most...
...Talk. Whether the prodigy will live up to its pressagentry, or whether its blessing will be unmixed, no one yet knows for sure. But one thing is certain: television is coming. It is already where aviation was when Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 1927-imperfect but inevitable. The chances are that it will change the American way of life more than anything since the Model...
...deny this, but do offer a few excuses. Program directors have operated on the skimpiest of budgets (until recently as much as 80% of television's money and personnel was spent on the engineering end), and against exasperating odds: inadequate studio equipment, a Petrillo ban on live musicians (which ended only nine weeks ago), and Hollywood's cold shoulder. Under the circumstances, it is perhaps remarkable that TV has offered anything at all worth looking...