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Some wore long Johns and sucked oranges for energy. Others, bundled in sweaters, jumped up and down to keep warm in the 38° chill. There were high school students and grandfathers; there was an obstetrician from Newton, Mass., and a psychiatrist from Manhattan. But most of the 166 runners who started last week's annual Boston Marathon could be counted on to drop out soon after the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind began, and Boston wags suggested that the Exeter Street finish line should be rechristened the Finnish line. Finnish runners had won the B.A.A. Marathon four times...
...Write on my tombstone," Mrs. Levy once jokingly told her husband. Child Psychiatrist David M. Levy: " 'Here lies my dear wife; she never minded her own business.' " Minding Mrs. Levy's business became a self-imposed posthumous duty of her fellow art lovers. They have written an eloquent epitaph...
Perhaps the world's most dedicated mustache researcher is a man who does not have one: Major Geoffrey Peberdy, former British army psychiatrist now on the staff of Newcastle General Hospital. Writing in the Journal of Mental Science, he tells of his mental health study of 400 mustachioed applicants for officer training. He divided up the candidates by type of mustache: trimmed (short hairs over entire upper lip), bushy, toothbrush, hairline and divided. For trimmed, bushy, hairline and divided types, the "pass" rate was an average 23%-about the same as clean-shaven men. By astonishing contrast...
...after Po Chang, the great Zen master who said, "When you are tired, sleep." David Wincham, bearded and sandaled eldest son of Sir Alfred and Lady Wincham, has picked up the stray Chinese tot, along with a dumb blonde wife and the lingo of Zen. According to the head psychiatrist at NATO, David is suffering from a "Pull to the East" that has carried him across the Channel and as far as the British embassy in Paris, where his father is serving as ambassador in the early...
...three of them visit the famed psychiatrist, Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly (Hercules, believe it or not) anl he prescribes different remedies, each more or less successful, each particularly appropriate. By the end of the play the classical trappings have been discarded, and Eliot emerges as the same old Christian pessimist we always knew...