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Preserving your smarts, they argue, depends on a positive attitude and physical and mental exertion. Activities like swimming can prod the brain to produce the chemicals it needs to function in old age. Mental aerobics like crossword puzzles may strengthen connections between nerve cells and possibly aid in forming new neurons...
...Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young (Hyperion), due out next month. One sister lived a "hard life," smoking, drinking heavily, eating a high-fat diet and exercising little, if at all. She started experiencing mild forgetfulness at 77, followed by difficulty balancing her checkbook, completing crossword puzzles and addressing Christmas cards. Soon she developed Alzheimer's. The other twin was a social drinker who never smoked, adhered to a diet low in starches and animal fats, and exercised. She too began experiencing mild forgetfulness in her 70s but didn't decline further...
...Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, looked at 700 elderly, dementia-free Roman Catholic nuns, priests and brothers. Each was asked about time spent on various activities, among them viewing television; listening to the radio; reading newspapers, magazines and books; playing games such as cards and checkers; doing crossword puzzles; and going to museums...
Bletchley Park is an unlovely name for an unlovely country house. In World War II it was home to a collection of English crossword-puzzle addicts, math geeks, even the odd minor poet or two, whose supersecret work on German codes probably shortened the war by months if not years. Their greatest success was in cracking Enigma, the machine-generated numerical language by which the Germans communicated with the submarine wolf packs that preyed on the Atlantic shipping routes vital to Britain's survival...
...Under the opening credits, Elmer Bernstein score blares confidently (though in truth it sounds like leavings from his terrific work on "The Man With the Golden Arm" two years before). The glimpses of midtown midnight Manhattan under the credits put me in mind of a Henry Hook cryptic crossword-puzzle clue - "shining silver trash" - for which the answer is "aglitter" (silver = AG; trash = litter); the movie gleams like a diamond trying to pass itself off as a rhinestone. A truck dumps a pack of newspapers in front of a newsstand, and they flop, like a bunch of fish the papers...