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Says Dr. Gumpert: "Old age and senility are no more necessarily related than infancy and rickets." At 79, Michelangelo began to write sonnets; at 73, Galileo published his discoveries on the revolutions of the moon; at 82, Goethe finished Faust; at 88, John Wesley preached every day; at 78, Franklin became U.S. Ambassador to France; after 70, Verdi composed his great Othello and Falstaff; after 70, Cornelius Vanderbilt made more than $100,000,000. "After the critical age between 50 and 60 has been passed," observes Dr. Gumpert, "there often seems to be a new flowering of gifts and talents...
Emergency Call. Almost everything in handsome, blond, 32-year-old James Wesley McClain's early life fitted him to be Doctor I. Q. His father was a voice teacher in Louisville, Ky. His mother was a church organist. At Southern Methodist University, McClain majored in English and public speaking, made the varsity debating team. This led to the Dallas Little Theatre, then to an announcer's job for Station WFAA, Dallas. In 1940 Chicago's Grant Advertising Agency made him director of all its radio activities. A year later, in an emergency, he stepped into the agency...
...Attorney General John Wesley Corman, 56, is the Cabinet's oldest member, its strongest personality. When appointed, he was in his fifth term as mayor of Moose Jaw (pop: 20,500). Eastern bred and eastern educated (Toronto University), he is now as western as Moose Jaw. He firmly believes the rural west has had a raw deal from St. James Street (Canada's Wall Street...
Packed with such relationships between man and his bodily ailments is Human Constitution in Clinical Medicine (Hoeber; $3.50), by Dr. George Draper, Anthropologist C. Wesley Dupertuis and Dr. John Lyon Caughey Jr. of Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital.* Material for the book was gathered from the hospital's unique Constitution Clinic, founded in 1916. To find its facts the clinic uses Sheldon's system of calculating body build (TIME, July 15, 1940), rates each patient for androgyny (male and female characteristics), photographs patients nude (of 2,500, only four have refused), performs needed laboratory tests and interviews each...
...will business find the billions of dollars needed for postwar expansion? Will private capital flood forth to finance new ventures and help small business grow? Or must business go hat-in-hand to the Government for money? Last week grey, energetic Herbert Frank Boettler, 53, and rotund, easygoing John Wesley Snyder, 47, both vice presidents of the venerable First National Bank in St. Louis, thought they had some answers to these questions. Their suggestion: that a titanic National Industrial Credit Corp. be formed to pump risk credit into business. Labor, business, banks, insurance companies, railroads and private citizens would...