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...When I read about the hospitalizations, my eyes widened," says Dallek. "We never knew about this." Another revelation was the sheer quantity of medications Kennedy took daily during his presidency. "Steroids for his Addison's disease," Dallek writes, "pain-killers for his back, antispasmodics for his colitis, antibiotics for urinary-tract infections, antihistamines for allergies and, on at least one occasion, an antipsychotic (though only for two days) for a severe mood change that Jackie Kennedy believed had been brought on by the antihistamines." Johnny, we hardly knew...
...J.F.K., then 30, learned he had Addison's disease, a dysfunction of the adrenal glands that, among other things, regulate blood sugar and the body's response to stress. The treatment? More corticosteroids. In the years that followed, as he rose from Congressman to Senator to presidential hopeful, Kennedy denied rumors of Addison's, some of them passed along to reporters by political opponents like Lyndon Johnson. He finally admitted to it in 1960, more or less, when he issued a statement acknowledging an "adrenal deficiency...
...this for the tale of an upper-middle-class girl, Nanny, who takes a part-time job looking after Grayer Addison X, the 4-year-old scion of the Xs, a wealthy family with serious boundary issues. As plots go, it's not exactly Tom Clancy, but the novel's niftiness lies in Nanny's keen eye for detail. She's Mary Poppins channeling Dorothy Parker. She notes, for example, that at Halloween children are dressed as grownups while their caregivers are belittled: tiny Snow Whites shadowed by large dwarfs. Not to mention that the nannies' costumes are breathtakingly unsuitable...
...Berlin was by then at retirement age. But he was never comfortable "sittin' in the sun, countin' my money," to quote the title of a Berlin tune that Louis Armstrong took to #30 in 1953. Around that time he prepared a musical, never produced, about Wilson and Addison Mizner (a Sondheim musical on the Mizner brothers, "Wise Guys," has languished for years). His last produced musical, the 1962 "Mr. President," meant to capitalize on the fascination with Jack and Jackie Kennedy but ran only eight months. He spent more than a decade on a sixth trunk-song film...
...subjects, all of whom suffered from "major depression." Perhaps before discounting the herb's effectiveness, researchers should target folks having mild depression. St. John's wort seems to work for me--but heck, I also occasionally take ginkgo biloba to increase mental agility and clear thinking! MEL DAVIS Addison, Texas...