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...care." When their patient began to suffer from the recurrence of an old kidney ailment, the worried doctors issued a few "toned down" bulletins on his condition. This week he seemed as perky as ever, offered another bit of advice to his doctors. Said the author of Back to Methuselah: "For the first hundred years one should be a student, for the second hundred one should practice, and for the third hundred one should be a consultant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: To Remember You By | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Bible. Because of the difficulty of unwrapping the fragile leather, only a four-by-eight-inch fragment containing 26 lines has been studied so far. The snippet, says Dr. Trever, seems to be a discussion between Noah's father, Lamech, his mother, Bithenosh, and his grandfather, Methuselah, about their ark-building offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Oldest Word | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Feeling young again, Gus guessed that after one more light-heavyweight fight he would go gunning for the heavyweight crown. After all, Bob Fitzsimmons was a Methuselah of 35 when he became heavyweight champ back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good Old Gus | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...Thakin Nu, Premier of newly independent Burma, he sent a good-will copy of Back to Methuselah, confided that he considered it his masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts for Today | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Methuselah, the ancient of ancients, lived 969 years, according to the Bible. Modern Bible scholars estimate that he actually lived 192. But, according to Bernard Shaw, "the legend of Methuselah is neither incredible nor unscientific." In a postscript to Back to Methuselah, Shaw contended that death is "unnatural" and that man may some day achieve immortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aging Riddle | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

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