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Sitting motionless and staring at TV, long feared by physicians as a danger to the eyes, is also a threat to the circulation. So warned Philadelphia's Dr. Meyer Naide in the A.M.A. Journal last week. Internist Naide cited three patients (one a doctor) who had had severe blood clots in leg veins or arteries, requiring hospitalization and treatment with anticlotting drugs. Dr. Naide's prescription: take a "seventh-inning stretch" by getting up and moving around at least once an hour at TV seances, and for women, take off girdles, which can stop circulation in the thighs...
Statistics took a licking in Philadelphia too, when Army, after running in front of Notre Dame all afternoon, played fast and loose with a one-point, last-quarter lead, lost the ball on an intercepted pass and looked up forlornly to watch a 32-yd. Notre Dame field goal give the Irish the game...
...Carolinian who started on the strait-laced Star as a reporter in 1921, has been editor of the paper since 1946, and is a onetime president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He was elected by the A.P.'s 24-man board of directors to succeed the Philadelphia Bulletin's President-Publisher Robert McLean, 66, who resigned after 19 years. McLean's predecessor: the late Star Publisher Frank B. Noyes, who as president of the A.P. from its reorganization in 1900 until 1938 helped build it into the world's biggest wire service...
After four years of knee-and-gouge legal battle with the U.S. long-haul trucking industry. 24 Eastern railroads emerged last week with a black eye that is likely to remain visible for some time. In Philadelphia, Federal District Judge Thomas
...John W. McGovern. 62, moved up from executive vice president to president of U.S. Rubber Co., No. 3 in the industry (behind Goodyear and Firestone, with 1956 sales of $901 million), replacing H. E. Humphreys Jr.. 56, who will keep his other position as chairman and chief executive. Philadelphia-born President McGovern never got to college, instead took a two-year course in accounting before starting in with U.S. Rubber as an accountant in 1920. Working up the ranks, he was control manager of the tire division by 1933. His big jump came in 1941, when he rapidly organized...