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Moreover, heart specialists differ widely in their theories of what causes coronary disease. It is variously attributed to the strains of modern life, overwork, excessive smoking, too rich a diet, exercise, lack of exercise, heredity, hormones, and emotional factors...
...after Germany's Adenauer left for home, the Finns popped into Moscow for a five-day visit. It was another of Moscow's surprises, capped by a concession. Premier Bulganin, indisposed from the "overwork" of the negotiations with Adenauer, was not on hand to greet Finland's 84-year-old President Juho Paasikivi and Premier Urho Kekkonen when they stepped from the Russian plane that had brought them from Helsinki. But two days later it was Bulganin, pale but smiling, who informed the Finnish Premier that because of the "friendly relationship existing between Fmland and the Soviet...
...writers who traveled "to their graves by the alcoholic highway [March 28]." My husband . . . was one week short of 76 years of age when he died, and the death certificate gives as the cause arteriosclerosis, cardio-vascular disease, in other words, old age. To that I would add overwork. Upton Sinclair's family history is so tragic that it is natural for him to think that anyone who takes a drink is an alcoholic. And while we are about it, neither Dreiser nor Sherwood Anderson drank to excess...
...does not build a faculty with bricks or wood paneling, however, and the problem of expansion is as difficulty here. There is already an extreme shortage of teachers, and to expect top men to work for current salaries is wishful thinking. But, while complaining of present overwork, Harvard faculty members grudgingly admit with Philip H. Rhinclander '29, Director of general Education, that a "qualified faculty can be found if enough money is put into the field...
Flutterings & Squeals. Even the actors had a bad time of it last week. Milton Berle, Red Buttons and Joan Blondell were all rushed to bed suffering variously from overwork, strep throats and virus infections. CBS Newsman Ed Murrow, scheduled to appear as host on NBC's Producers' Showcase in honor of the Overseas Press Club, announced that he couldn't make it because of "contractual conflict," a phrase that the industry read to mean CBS displeasure...