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Responses Eleanor Roosevelt was asked the oldest living question in, newspaper interviews: what do you eat? The answer: whatever the others eat, since she rarely eats alone. Otherwise: fruit, coffee and one piece of toast for breakfast (after an eye opener of hot water and lemon juice) ; crackers and milk for lunch ; "I'm usually out to dinner." Jules Romaines, France's marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), clucked sadly at the writer's lot in the U.S., where "a writer ... is regarded as a specialist...
...oldest were the biggest. From the lowest level came massive teeth and jaw bones which must have belonged to monstrous manlike creatures eight to nine feet tall and weighing 600 to 700 pounds. They were four times as big as modern...
Arthritis is the modern name for rheumatism and "the misery," one of the oldest diseases on earth (even dinosaurs had it, as their fossil remains show). Doctors recognize two chief types: 1) rheumatoid, an inflammation which usually attacks people between the ages of 20 and 40; and 2) osteoarthritis, a degenerative ailment of old age. Symptoms: painful swellings of the joints, often starting in the fingers or knees, and migrating from joint to joint...
...chief trouble of owning the thing, says Tom Morse who pumps the gear pedals of what is probably the oldest auto at the University, is that everyone from traffic police to filling station attendants stops to tell you about the model T he once owned. "I can get up to 45 miles an hour," he declares, but adds that the rattles and hazards seem to increase cubicly with the speed...