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...time Nazi pressure, applied by Count von Schulenberg, began to be felt by the Communist authorities, the imprisoned Radziwills had become thin and emaciated. Suddenly their Moscow prison rations were changed from short to long. The same official of the Soviet Political Police who had starved and questioned them then stood over the Radziwills to make sure they ate every morsel on their now heaping plates. They were kept from the usual prison exercise period, suffered gastritis from the intensive stuffing process. But the Radziwills were fattened up to something like normal in three weeks...
From time immemorial men have had the idea that people of different body shapes have different temperaments. Despite exceptions, fat people seem in general to be jolly, gregarious, lazy, comfort-loving; thin, wiry or bony people are often secretive, seclusive, introverted;* powerful giants are supposed to be self-assured, mild-mannered and softspoken. Making the maximum possible allowance for environmental conditioning, most biologists insist that there must be some relation left between behavior and physical constitution...
...ectomorphic component involves fragility and delicacy of body, spindly bones, stringy muscles, dropped shoulders, prominent ribs, long, thin, forward-bent neck, small face, sharp nose, thin, dry, sensitive skin, fine, quick-growing hair, prominent genitalia...
Sometimes Author Wolfe's record seemed too synoptic and sketchy. Sometimes he seemed to be writing in a library rather than from firsthand facts. Sometimes he seemed to be padding thin spots in his knowledge with chunks of William Henry Chamberlin and slices of Hermann Rauschning. Nevertheless, he made some important points tellingly...
...long, camouflage-dappled touring car Benito Mussolini last week ventured, four days after fighting ceased, into the thin slice of Alpine territory which the French, retreating before the Germans, yielded to his soldiers. It was his first visit to French soil since becoming a dictator 18 years ago. More daring last week -and less lucky-was bronze-bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of Mussolini's original Quadrumvirate in 1922, "exiled" since 1933 (when he won great publicity for a mass seaplane flight from Rome to Chicago) as Governor and Military Commander of Libya...