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...side trips, says Darby, "tagging around after the President in long motorcades is enough to give the regular White House correspondent a nervous breakdown. A motorcade is something like the kid's game of cracking-the-whip...
...after cruising the Mediterranean with Cinemagnate Sir Alexander Korda on his 150-ton yacht Elsewhere, were back in London for another busy theater season. They began rehearsals for their new play, The Sleeping Princess (Actress Leigh's first stage role since recovering from last spring's nervous breakdown), and were photographed helping famed British Actress Helen Haye* (still going strong playing the Dowager Empress of Russia in Anastasia) blow out the candles at her 79th birthday party...
...weights, fueling up on enormous daily quotas of calories and proteins (e.g., three or four steaks a day). He never touched candy, alcohol, tobacco. One look at girls told him: "They're dangerous." Anything that detracted from his lifts was "dissipation." At 20 he had a nervous breakdown, but soon bounced back...
...most creative thinkers did their best work in the age range from 26 to 30; in mathematics, physics, electronics, botany and practical inventions, from 30 to 34. What about Thomas Alva Edison, who was still making highly practical inventions in his 80s? No exception, says Dr. Lehman. A breakdown of the number of patents Edison took out year by year shows a Himalayan peak of activity in his 30s and only molehills later...
...they found U.S. women largely emancipated and close to winning the vote. There were other causes to which Kinsey pays little or no heed. One was Prohibition, which helped destroy respect for law and. indirectly, for all authority (and which also taught women to drink). Another was the widespread breakdown of formal religion. Perhaps at the root of all the causes was the inevitable reaction against the prim Victorian era, which itself was not nearly so safe & sound as it appeared. For beneath its placid surface, a social and intellectual revolution had long been rumbling, which enshrined science and progress...