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...number of medical authorities feel that the new figures are in no way desirable. The American Heart Association last week issued a statement urging people to stick with the more rigorous 1959 guidelines. "The more you weigh, the more heart attack, heart failure and even stroke in some groups," said Dr. William Castelli, medical director of the well-known major study of heart disease under way in Framingham, Mass. "The fact that fatter people are living longer may merely reflect the growing success of medical intervention in weight-related ailments," said Dr. Virgil Brown, chairman of the A.H.A. nutrition committee...
DIED. Robert Payne, 71, prolific novelist, translator, poet and biographer of men of power; following a stroke; in Hamilton, Bermuda. An English-born naturalized American citizen who worked as a journalist in Spain, a shipwright in Singapore and a professor of English literature in China and Alabama, Payne produced as many as six or seven books a year on subjects ranging from early Christian history to Greta Garbo's films. His best-known works, biographies of such men as Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and Gandhi, were highly readable but broke little new interpretive or historical ground...
...like William Manchester's in his monumental, novelistic American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur (1978), are logical, not chronological. Kaplan does not, for example, begin his recent Walt Whitman: A Life, with the poet's birth. Instead, the bard is introduced at age 65, broken and disabled by a stroke, buying his first house in seedy Camden, N.J. His brother George is angered by those "whorehouse" poems. Whitman responds, "I just did what I did because I did it-that's the whole secret." "You're as stubborn as hell," George says. "You are stubborner, Walt, than...
...that Von Roon's literary irony could not be preserved and that his insights ought to be dramatized in scenes showing world leaders in action. "It was a hell of a shock to me," says Wouk. But within a day Wouk had concluded that it was "a craftsmanlike stroke that cut to the heart of the matter...
...flipped his putter around, swung a few times and achieved pleasant results. The president and chief tinkerer of a San Diego-based golf-equipment firm retired to his shop and emerged with the Basakwerd, a putter with a head that points toward the body. It demands a square stroke of the ball that literally forces the player to use a textbook swing. Or so the theory goes. Golfers, of course, will try anything short of pool cues or ball-peen hammers to improve their putting game. Arnold Palmer, 53, gave it a swing, and at the Los Angeles Open earlier...