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...Boston's famed Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 70, an energetic mountain climber, wood splitter, bicycle rider and whale hunter (to take their pulses), welcomed a snowstorm to help demonstrate one of his favorite maxims: "Hard work never killed a healthy man." Unpuffingly shoveling snow piled behind his Beacon Street office, Dr. White advised all healthy folks to take exercise in keeping with their age and general physical tone, build up to exertion slowly if they're soft, certainly not refrain from snow shoveling if their only ailment is just being 70. Said the doctor with some concern...
...York's Governor Averell Harriman are "three candidates in search of a crisis," said he. Then, singling out Front Runner Stevenson, Nixon added: "Unless he changes his present course, it will begin to look as if the state which gave the nation Abraham Lincoln, the great rail-splitter of 1860, has produced in Adlai Stevenson the great hairsplitter...
...colonial Philadelphia, there was a printer who was likewise a scientist, and who was hailed as the wisest man of his day . . . In 19th century Illinois, there was a rail splitter who was likewise a lawyer and who was hailed a champion of humanity . . . Education today can nurture for us the possibility of a thousand Franklins and a thousand Lincolns in a generation, where before we were fortunate to have...
Love Is Eternal, by Irving Stone (Doubleday; $3.95), poses a problem: Can a bluegrass belle from Kentucky marry a rude rail splitter from Illinois and find enduring love and happiness in the White House? Author Stone supplies the answers in a 468-page Edgar Guestimate about the love and home life of Abe and Mary...
...action-packed years as A.F.L. representative in Europe, Irving Brown has become one of the Americans that Communists know best-and hate most. In Belgium Communists call him "the grey eminence of the yellow international," in Italy "Scarface, the notorious American fascist racketeer," in Prague "the chief union splitter." Tass has accused him of everything from forging Cominform documents to shipping German virgins to Africa "to amuse young Americans."* Last week Brown was in Washington reporting to A.F.L. leaders on how he had earned such Red epithets...