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...least some coronary damage before he took up running at the age 35, and his history of smoking and be overweight probably contributed to problem. Significantly, Fixx's father a heart attack at 35 and was dead 43. Heredity plays a very important in heart disease, notes Cardiologist Winslow of Chicago's Northwestern Medical Center and medical director of the Chicago marathon. "You could say that Fixx was running with the cards stacked against him," he says...
...have had some warning signals. A few days before his death, he complained to a fellow runner of exhaustion. "Tremendous fatigue often occurs prior to a heart attack," says Sheehan. More important, Fixx told his family that he felt a tightness in his throat while running. This, says Winslow, was probably angina, a telltale sign of coronary trouble. Though commonly described as a gripping pain in the chest, angina can occur anywhere from the nose to the navel. Usually it occurs in the same place and disappears when physical activity stops. "Tightness" and "heaviness," says Winslow...
...from the truth. Last December, while testing a number of other runners, Cooper urged his friend to have his heart function evaluated with a treadmill stress test, but "for reasons known only to himself," Fixx refused. "The second most common symptom of coronary disease, after angina, is denial," observes Winslow. For long distance runners like Jim Fixx, it can be fatal...
...exhibition consists of 110 works, from Copley's youth to Winslow Homer's age. They were chosen by a committee headed by Boston Art Historian Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., with assistance from the Louvre's chief curator of paintings Pierre Rosenberg. There are some unavoidable absences and a few awkward or campy presences (like John Quidor, the corny illustrator of Washington Irving's tales, or Edward Ashton Goodes, whose excruciating Fishbowl Fantasy, 1867, is crammed with everything that was worst in the taste of Victorian America). Still, it is hard to see how the difficult task...
...transplanted Texan with an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, Williams says that "art collecting is my great sickness." Alliance's Manhattan headquarters resembles a museum, its long corridors full of drawings and etchings by such American masters as Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. While working as a chemical engineer at Esso (now Exxon) in 1959, Williams started a collection of Saudi Arabian stamps...