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...Jonathan Hullah, M.D., who was present at St. Aidan's Church in Toronto when Father Ninian Hobbes collapsed and died. Also on the altar that day was Hullah's old friend from prep-school days, Father Charles Iredale, who shooed the physician away when he approached the stricken celebrant. "We were members of two rival priesthoods," Hullah muses, "he the Man of God and I the Man of Science...
...oldest old are healthier than the merely old in several respects. Heart disease and stroke, for instance, have their greatest im-pact in the 50s through 80s for men and about 10 years later for women. Those who make it past the danger zones are less apt to be stricken at all. Similarly, Alzheimer's disease usually picks off its victims by the mid-80s. Perls found that men in their 90s outperformed octogenarians in tests of mental function...
Without question, through, the show's big winner was Bart St. Clair '93, who played Private Fifi Fifofum. St. Clair was hilarious, despite the fact that he was a last-minute replacement for a laryngitis-stricken David Travis '95 and only received the script the day before the first performance...
...Smoke or Not to . . . An aggressive antismoking campaign in Sweden is raising angry smoke signals in Denmark because it targets Prince cigarettes, a popular Danish brand. The posters now confronting smokers throughout Sweden feature shocking images--an anxious-looking woman flanked by an X ray of a cancer-stricken woman with only one lung--and even stronger headlines: Seduced by a Prince and Killed by a Prince. Though the manufacturer of Prince cigarettes is not taking legal action, offended Danes are fighting back. ``Since thousands of people are killed in traffic every year,'' the Copenhagen tabloid Ekstra Bladet editorialized...
...hands of refugees at an emergency shelter in Kobe. One woman, overcome with emotion, wept when the Empress, who is usually kept at a distance from ordinary Japanese, tenderly embraced her. Protocol yielded to compassion as the Empress accompanied Emperor Akihito on an eight-hour visit to the stricken city, stopping at a site where many had died to place a bouquet of daffodils from the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Their tour of the disaster area was delayed two weeks, so as not to interfere with rescue operations. Though Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama got a cool reception...