THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1954.
CAN YOU LIVE 100 YEARS?
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OR the last eight weeks a 72-year- old scientist called Everard Digby has been serving as a human guinea-pig in medical experiment aimed at restoring him to the physical condition he had in middle life.
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A leading London specialist in old- age research is attempting to put Mr Digby's aging processes into reverse so that the ravages of the last few years can be undone.
If the experiment works and can be repeated Mr Digby may reach 100 with the body of
a man in his sixties.
Doctora are calling this turning back
Experiments on this man are charting the way to longer life for all—
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by CHAPMAN PINCHER
of the years reversion instead of
the
gland
reduction of oxygen supply Do thues is believed to be a Giving potent cause of aging. thyroid extract improves this supply by speeding up the whole body chemistry.
re extract of the thyrold juvenation (the restoration located in the neck. The grudunj of youth which they bon lieve to be impossible.
Reversion corresponds to
of The decarbonising motor-car. It could never make the body new again,
IL but might make
better and last longer.
run
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Mr Digby, convinced that some
reversjon of degree
bring Immediately possible, is
pecint
extracts, given
gland drugs, and vitamins at a London hospital.
The theury behind this treat- ment is soundly based on newly won knowledge of the causes of aging which will be revrated In greater detall at an international congress of old-age specialists which is going on in London,
Thyroid
EXPERIMENTS carried ont at
a hospital in St Lows, US have shown that cetoin ho:- mones gland extracts- defalte ly have the power to put some aging charges into reverse.
to 30 Alter giving hormones women whose average age was Professor 75, setentiata, Jed
by
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from
Experiments, not yet COAL- frined, sugges! that thyroid may also protect the arteries certain signs of degeneration.
treatment is No hormone without some danger, so rever- Exo sion altempls will have to carried out under the strictest
nedical supervision,
transfusing The effect of young blood Into old people has not yet been tried, though there evidence is strong test-tube that it might have remarkable results.
age
occasionally
Mr Digby believes that might be rapidly reversed oki people were ficial kidney machine. given treatment with an
arti-
There is much evidence that defective kidneys, which can no longer filter out waste products efficiently, are one of the main causes of ageing.
Da
The filter
O by passing the blood through kidney a artificial Promising new experimenta in altering device through which a blood stream can by Krafting patient's giving hormoner
bly, us
circuited--the glands into the
was aufcly be short by the attempted
famous body might be cleansed of some by-products Serge of the Kurgcon
poisonous which make it grow old. in progress ni
Studies carried Alber
D: out by
St Louis, Lansing, of have shown that calelum is one collect of the materials which
Voronov, are Glasgow hospital,
There
ere Dr Erich Geiringer has tried the effects of transplant- ing youthful adrenals-glands
produce which other hormones-into the bodies in the issues as the body ages. called rolifers of aged animals, He has found Small animals
much longer when not lived allowed to accumulate calcium.
cortisone
und
that this seems to increase the life-span of while rats by about 50 percent.
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"Banks"
Research findings to be dis- closed at the conference clearly show that psychological factors ensuring are as important in long life as any drug treatment
William Kountz, reported a sur-
Immediately devised. question prising improvement
The Falsed by the ukin, blood supply to
this finding is:
Examination of the brains red "Where
could the youthful increase of the number of
whose habits and blood cells, and in some cases
organs come from if the process of people
applicable to become
outlook were known has shown even restoration of hair colour, ever
that the determination to re- There was also
humans?" Improvement.
main netive seems to stave off
responsible nerve-cell changes
inental
In elderly men hormone mjer- tions build up inusete and o.her tissues, doctors claim.
One of the lio: mon's ing given to Mr Digby
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It has already been answered by another group of scientia, leri by Dr A. S. Purkes, of the for Medical National Institute
Research. They have devised cold of keeping in methods storage adrenal glands and other tissues taken from young people killed in accidents.
are
ese
for mental deterioration.
The will
TR Digby, who is still work- M
ing full time as a consultant scientist in an office off White
a certainly has the will to keep going. He believes he is started his reveralon treatment.
His chances of living to a
however, will hundred.
already feeling better since he
also
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ME AND MY FARM
ME AND DORDLING
MY
JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP
in a crisis he asked for an audience.
But. Winston, it's not even original'
HERE wero few The son of a middle-class matters upon which army family (the title of Nazi leaders nobility "von" was irregular- could ever agree. iy adopted by an uncle), he But they found no difficulty decided to go into business the detesting when his father left unanimously Joachim von
Ribbentrop. army after a political quar- Only Hitter found some rel. mysterious merit in Foreign Minister, and the answer must be that dicta-
In
his
tors suffer sycophants glad
ly.
The Ribbentrop Memoirs
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题 young man, he travelled extensively through France, England, and worked for four years in
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THE PARROT TRIES
gest
TO
WEAR
A HALO
by MILTON SHULMAN
English
who repeatedly
spurned his outstretched hand of friendship.
Reading these incompleted memoirs, most of which were written in Nuremberg gaol, one is almost embar- rassed by the clumsy Halo Ribbentrop has tried to At upon himself. Here is a man almost suffering from an excess of good intentions.
He loved the English and the French, he Was Д moderating influence on Hitler; he alone told. Hitler the truth no matter how unpopular it might be; he about the
Very Obtuse
busi- bers of the Nazi hierarchy. Know nothing export-Import nesses in Germany.
"No one had ever heard of concentration camps; he was Ribbentrop explains that him, and all of a sudden he always the essence of polite- it was his Connections with turned up as an important ness and correctness when England and France that man in the Foreign Office dealing, with foreign diplo- made him take up politics. practically overnight," said mats.
Hitler He never missed an oppor- von Schtrach, the
tell foreigners Youth leader, at Nurem- tunity to about the iniquities of the berg. "All I could deter- Versailles treaty. Soon he mine was that he had placed was involved in trying to his house in Munich at the BUT Ribbentrop's ignor- bring about a coalition be- disposal of foreign repre- tween the rightwing Na- sentatives for negotiations, tionalist parties and Hitler. and suddenly he became a
leading diplomat." It was not until August
an 1932, when, as inter-
Admirer
con greatly depend on his inherited confirm the verdict of tower. Car checker and reporter. Chancellor, Ribbentrop was to Hitler is odd. "It was the full of important politicians
"Banks" of human
spare puts are already being built up for use in grating operations at
British several
hospitals, these Lengths of arteries from
the saved banks have already lives of many elderly people.
Doctors
satisfied that "hardening of the arteries, one of the most serious
is make-up.
ing inanity that history has The outbreak of the 1914-18 his war took him back to Ger- already erected 08 After full-scale medical ex- epitaph. There is neither many. stance called cholesterol in the aminations
dignity nor credibility in tenarians doctors blood vessel walls.
are certain
lucky this defence of a carcer that lej by
that some peopic arc
body is remarkable only, in that have enough to be born with
type it existed at all. confirmed that this can be pre-engines" of a superior vented in animals by adding which go on working far Store Substance called choline to the yond normal life span without
diel, So some drug treatment to remove the cholesterol which medical aid,
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Ribbentrop For neither a professional diplo mat nor a long-time Nazi.
Weldenfeld and Nicolaon, 13a,
ance and preposterous logic crams every page. He boasts of his knowledge of England and of the many Influential. English friends who supported him. When ho had negotiated the Anglo-... mediary of von Papen's, he
German. Naval Treaty in Canada and America at such first met Adolf Hitler. He
R ➜IBBENTROP'S own ex- 1985, be says, "the Carlton After Hitler became varied jobs as bank clerk, was "strongly impressed."
planation for his appeal Hotel was like a dovecote" ensconced as a kind of per- harmony of our views about and publishers eager to con- sonal agent of the Fuehrer's, England which, on the first gratulate him.
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Yet so obtuse was he spent together, affairs. Since Hitler deep created the seed of con- about English thinking that Out of Army ly distrusted his advisers in fidence between Hitler and he seriously agrees with Hitler that a proposal for the Foreign Office, the ex- myself," he writes. · wine. salesman was able to
According to Ribbentrop, putting 12 German divisions DEFEAT ended his army
career, and with the build up his own tiny empire Hitler was a most ardent at the disposal of Britain to
the Ribbentrop admirer
of England and help her preserve her Em- help of a marriage to a
heiress champagne
had
could never hear enough pire would be an acceptable built up by the middle His sudden rise puzzled about its institutions and way of strengthening Anglo- 'twenties one of the big even the most senior mem customs. But it was the German relations.
known as Bureau.
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ARE YOU A GARDENIA
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JAPAN's beautiful fashion
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By RICHARD HUGHES
There are four groups in the Tokyo Fashion Model Club:
He also believed, on practically no evidence, that Edward VIII would have been a strong pro-German influence had he remained. on the throne.. Perhaps the height of his, and
OR A LILY? Fatality was his attempt dur
Masculine View
ing the abdication crisis to get an audience with the
Mean Figure
UNFORTUNATELY, for Rib
bentrop's pleture of himself, other people, 400, have written their memoirs. Bir Novile, Hẹn- derson describes him" kada combination of vanity stupidity and
* superáciality”? Goering any of the girls are saying called him "Germany's No. that they must consequently | parrot.” · Bizmark, 'a ^ Foreign. resign from the Club" sighed omce official, said, "He is such an Imbecile that he, is a treac Minu Kawamata,
of nature.??
the Fashion Model Club, the King in the belief that he taxation authorities are cou-|might be able to offer some tending that they should pay in useful advice. additional 10 percent impost. as movie actresses by the come and of course-seniority fashion authorities, with charte "Japanese man are afraid of The Club, it is inulated, is not nation's less glamorous but that indispensable Ingredient teristic Japanese attention to me. And I am ashamed to dis-n social organisations but an Fear, membership detail, have coinod, the term cover that I now sometimes employment agency, perhaps happier girls, are To Japaneso success).
"hattoshin" to describe them. think that Japanese men are not of which, by an enigmatic $8.50 complaining that financial
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The Lily Group-below 20,000
Men Are Afraid
sometimes wish now that I
Trokutoshiin (six-head-
"Top model in the country is a Miss Kinuko Ito, who won third eyed kelko Iwal; a Gardenia
· body) " says-/ lissom, almond place in the Miss Universe con Group modei, expressing the Lest at Los Angeles last year!", ourrent mood of masination. I Bile is reputed to eat more would then be leading a normal Chham 200,000 ryan a mourihand and happier life.” appears to "havet sutained the G
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In fact, only, six of Tokyo's 200 fathloni models are mátrika.
As for Ribbentrop's - constant cannot meet we models And, they were married before they began modelling.
among ourselves so that the section that he was always for, Chrysanthemum and larderia friendship with England, he does There are not enough eligible Group giriscaux help, comfort not bother to explain his states German-Brush wladions, wrik- Japanese men to marry the and advise the Violes and Lily meat in my memorandumon *** explained Miss Chiyoko Group members, our last social fan in 1997 that every day that
at dance beauty Woo pleasure will be lost # Lang ofor the Tokyo #asiton
- our politicni onlouistions are not actuated by the dindamental
A harit maamullins Judement fama inat England in our most
dangerous Kenemy would",
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and the