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Freuchen went after a good living, but he continued to like freedom and excitement. Confinement and routine cramped him like a vest several sizes too small for his barrel chest. As editor of his in-laws' magazine, forced to compromise between literature and margarine sales, he tore out his beard by the fistful. As a landowner he relieved the baronial monotony by inviting troops of guests, among them a radical poet who worked for the revolution by urging wealthy landowners to commit suicide...
...never before presumed to characterize its now-deified hero. Actor Shchukin's profile is Lenin's to the eyelash. From biographies, letters, newsreels and associates of Lenin he got Lenin's impatient, nervously-energetic demeanor down pat. In the film he thumbs his vest, shifts uneasily whenever he has to stay seated, drives his points home with emphatic coordination of forefinger, whiskers and narrowed eyes. Not so free with his gestures is the unnamed player who portrays Stalin. Like the actor who played the king as if someone were about to play the ace, his portrayal...
With a supply of testosterone, Drs. Samuel Alexander Vest & John Eager Howard of Johns Hopkins a year ago began to administer the substance to: 1) men who were undersexed because they had never developed; and 2) men whose virility had been destroyed by disease. By last week they had enough evidence to warrant a preliminary report...
...patients improved, achieved or regained manhood. One felt like "fighting wildcats." But these benefits continued only during the administration of the hormone. Drs. Vest & Howard cautiously warned: "It is only a substitution therapy, and certainly in instances of marked hypogonadism [under-functioning of the sex organs] it must be given continuously for sustained effect. . . . These clinical results can be regarded as being entirely in an experimental phase...
...arrived and I began to get a little worried and nervous, in fact I threw my new pocket watch out the window and put my cigarette stub in my vest. But one small glass of Scotch fixed that...