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"This is going to be another recellulosing job when we get home.”,
THE
BIG
1951;
-(London Expreza Service) ·
Franco's prisoner-on-holiday tells his story
WINE for the millionaire, black bread for ME
by
MERVYN LUBBOCK
M
of Streatham
0 filthy
minitress on the
Y holiday began with switched off I
hopes of sunshine, w perhaps adventure, a floor and two return ticket third class to pairs of old boots in a heap
Barcelona, and £16.
It ended with 31 days in
gaol and my father having
to bail me out for £50.
of raga.
When the door was locked I
struck a match
and saw black
In Palamos I was arrested 'bettles crawling with my three friends and up the walls and taken to gaol. We were ac-
cused of insulting Franco.
files on the stone 100%*
discovered
dog-
IT WAS just after mid- that our cell in winter was the night, when an officer and
home of the two men of the Civil Guard local marched us away from the cafe where we had been drinking.
-
catcher, a tramp
MERVYN LUBBOCK rent pays who
With Spanish gourd (ftask), as a memory. for it.
In the summer he finds it usually of five courees, and then Our first cell was in a big mere comfortable to sleep on relaxed with brandy and coffee. While we munchid dry bread, grey building which looked like the beach. a block of Bots.
Next In the few
morning we were berkew of trus were carried in seconds before the light was taken to the police station and heard two witnesses say we had insulted Franco. We all denied all cher prisoners were made to lle stient, we could, hear the
BID TO
BEAT OLD AGE
St. Louis. TEARLY 800 scientists and doctors dedicated to the exciting task
of stretching the human life span so that, barring acci- dents, everyone should still be hale at 100, have got down to work here.
CHAPMAN PINCHER reports
from St Louis-where
·
the
blues came from-on 1951's ! strangest conference, at- tended by 800 scientists
.
From laboratories and hospitals of 43 countries they have converged on this adopt this gradual retirement You need less as you cease to sweltering Mississippi town plan-put workers on a four- put on muscle and excess, pro- -the setting of the famed day week at 55, a three-day
tein can strain aging kidneys, week at 60, and so on, knocking. Negro blues song-to report off a day every five years, 50 their findings.
they can still do.one full day's work between 70 and 76.
Big news broke within the first hour of argument-the announcement by Germany's Professor Otto Vogt of the first hard scientific evidence that idleness in the twilight. years is really a killer.
ON MOVE
3. GO EASY with fats and fried foods.
The part played by heredity
how in determining
long you will live is being investi- gated by Finland's Eva Jalavis-
to.
It
matters more if your mother comes from long-lived stock than your father, she says.
The age of your father when you were born does not affect your life span. But the age of your mother does.
If your mother was in her 201 at your birth the chances are you will live longer than if she had been in the 40s.
MORE
YEARS
this.
to the "privaged prirencia.
At the hour of slesta, when
In the afternoon, we were chinking of brandy glasses and back in gaci. A protest about coffee cups
Twice .
the cell brought permission to cigare, stay in the corridor, where the flces were less numerous. -
and smell good.
week the prison barber visited the cell, He
During that evening two charged as two pesetas (50.) Spaniards ur:ught us food, and good shave, one.peseta for
for
the garter cold us a Emall let a poor one,
for 25.
The
25. 8d.
following
wo in
Many of the prisoners :were
rags. evening
Only recusionally was were packed into a small van an issue made of a black boiler decorated with ̧‹ multi- with six other men and driven sult to Gerona guol Guards re-
coloured patches, No-shoes were available, and many pri- moved our handcuffs and we walked into a large cell where Foners went barefoot, 30 prisoners were already lying on the floor.
WE
Lights On
VE kept the lights on all night, and one of the prisoners shuffled round and round,the rell to prevent stealing.
We had eaten nothing for 24 hours, but we could not touch the breakfast of lukewarm calon soup.
four lunatics and several pelty In the cell with me were
thieves. One of them, a plek-
was personal servant to
packendire
-the
After 20 days I was allowed to walk raund the sand-covered prisyn yard with 80 other rien. I found that one was serving 99 years for murder, another 25 years for armed hold-ups,
No Doctor
never saw.'a doctor in the prison, though on cne occa- church sloni, 'on compulsory no Blo
parade, a man collapsed with a
I tried to get a wash, but there wrs no water, and nɔ ɔap.
Feod was served on a greasy
There were tin plate, knives, forks or spoons,
Lunch was a plate of watery haemorrhage
the same,
He was put back in the cell potato soup, supper or with beans or lentils. All I and I gave him a piece of bread. could eat was the dally Issue He was not visited by anyone in
of authority. of a
quarter of a pound
One day the 165 prisoners in black bread.
I-did There is strong evidence they
Each day there were eight the gaol were inoculated. Aging men chould work a contain д substance which
THERE are many eminent men
here who believe the medient roll calls. We stood to atten- not know why, and the convice longer day, nine or even ten damages arteries, bringing on a
tion for 18 minutes while the who gave the inoculations: (all already in use have cabo chief convict heart attack called advances
with the same, needio) did not counted
knew eliher. hours, doctors urge, so they can type of
coronary thrombosis.
lengthened the time we stay 115. take a job more slowly.
young as well as giving us long- TWO days after we arrived at Gerona my three friends were released. I was promised release the following day. It came 27 days later,
Practically every day, after our lunch of watery soup, convict walked by, carrying a salver on which was a roasting fowl or feint- of meat,
These, and many other
taken in luxuries, were
to a millionaire and his friends who were in gaol for theft.
These three lived in a small room off the main cell. They drank wine with every meal,
Their tests show that, workers are allowed to let up on speed, skill suffers tile advancing age.
Irom
4. DRINK more water.
5. EAT lots of fruft, water-
er life.
or
"A 60-year-old minni cress, and vegetables containing woman today leaks, feels and vitamin C, which it is believed acts much younger than a 60- neutralises waste chemicals year-old of 1000," says Phil-
adelphia'a Dr E. L. Bortz. Of course, Individuals of the damaging to body tissues,
A AFTER a ne-focus study of in same age will always differ in
6. TAKE vitamin B tablets more thorough combined aging hurman brain, Vogt
and capabilities, and regularly. strength
Extra supplies of attack is being launched at this claims that continued activity
vitamin called conference. Doctors hope that definitely stoves off nerve-cell one of the problems facing the one type of B changes responsible for the experts here is lo devise some Thiamine seem to stave off such the conquest of age will be so unpleasant scnlle symptoms as speeded up that a further 16 steady deterioration of mental way of assessing the real age of muscle tenderness and numb- years leap in the lllo span may
a person's body,
be possible in this generation. (London Express Service)
powers.
In the brain cells of 90-year- olds who had been determined
As a starting point, the
to keep on the move the aging "physiological"age"--the figure process has been considerably based on blood pressure, strength delayed.
of handgrip, eyesight, and hear. Ing-is to be discussed.
223
wil.om overwork, either
But Vogt has seeni no person
Fuller precautions for edhlev- mental or physical, has speeded ing longer life will crystallise as
the aging of the human further findings are unfolded.
up
nervous system.
This finding underlines the immediate object of lengthen- ing the life span to add life to years as well as years to life, so that the fast-Increasing oldster population can pull its weight. in the community.
n1c98.
FOR JOINTS
YET another B vitamin called Niacin, keeps joints supple, cccording to Connecticut's Dr William Kaufman, who tested it on 500 men and women.
Kaufman claims the vitamin Bul facts in support of a clear will Jooner joints already cut third rule - Watch Your stiffened by age. Diet-are already piling up.
The drug Cortisone likewise seems to be a rejuvenator.
SIX-POINTS
It formulates the first rule PEOPLE over 30 treble
for people past middle age who stay slim. want to reach a nimble cinety- KEEP OUT OF THAT ARM-- CHAIR.
}
During the day we same times played games like blind I tried to teach man's buff. many of them could not wrile. them: noughts and crosses, but I was allowed two books a week, but the only one I could find in English wac Chambers
Journal.
Once a week. I was given 25 pesetas of my ówn money, which I spent on extra bread.. and chocolate,
I finished my sentence with £4 of my holiday money.
I shall be on holiday again next year. But in England.
ARTIE SHAW, HIS WIVES-
AND HIS LIFE-WORK
Man
I've Most.
Wanted to Meet arrived
By EVE PERRICK
"If a man has a crazy other human fallin1@17-2
"Well there it is" said Arile "Believe it or not. I have the Uko Shaw. But doctors are putting their
past everyone figurtu ho'll be to eat."
Artio Shaw's other main in- biggest efforts into staving off in London the other night. crazy all his life.
terest is his 240-acre dairy farm want to "But if you really the symptoms of old age rather From the American boat-
100 miles from New York: "I their than trying to tum back the train at Paddington he step- know how. I managed to marry took an agricultural course to of renching 70 if they clock.
ped an ordinary-enough six glamour girls suppose we
head of cattle While investigating the heart looking guy, tallish, darkish change the subject. Let's talk learn how to handle my 120 Even middle-aged folk who action of old people, Britain's and rather. handsome, 41. about something else and sco are not puffing on weight ingenious Dr Oscar Olbrich has years old, and answering to "What will is
you can find out omnam
"Unfortunately there is no rot should cut down their diet; for are United Too many retired men
Decidentally discovered
bullam, deforestation, the de- formula for marriage.” jur that the name of Artio Shaw. toicing painful care of them found that aging muscle, is
States doctors have hundreds of patients must have
There was just one ques population trend. In the world Perhaps the answer to my
today?"
unasked question why six mor- selves, because they belleve fou
No. We rolled for Mr Shaw's clages, mix of threatened and the they will shorten their lives by gradually replaced by adipose been diagnosed es finving weak taxing their E
can hearts when they were perfectly tion I wanted to ask, "How's tiesue. So elderly people strength.
it done?"
pet subject the book he has same number of
retirements from rhow business put-on heart burdening fat healthy,
"You mean becoming a Just Anished writing.
➡is in the dedication of the now. Yet one of the Ukeliest reasons without noticing 11.
Many doctors base diagnosti of heart trouble on recordings musical genius?" he an-Cattle
Arts Shaw presentation to all
lives them may be the fact that'
until they drop.
cerols versus bacon and egg for
villabis
why their wives generally oul-, Atter deals Redetalled so made by an electrital machine. I swered. "Well, It's the old It is called, "The Trouble with dedicato; this book to: most women go on working checking the effoots of Olbrich now found that when the formula: stick around Cinderella," and the four black- such
qi manuscript arid: maladie bound volumes of cooking; cleaning. : mending myreakfast (90-ati · blood – sumri heart is alightly dispinced. It may geniuses for a while and are more important. Hems in the
Oven, streng h, doctors here urge the give the same sort of recording soon you become one."
erstwhile King of Swing's lug: Dostolovsky, over 56's to use, this Mix-point a defective heart: though as
than the three clarinets ho those countie ****: adund as over:⠀
solere to as his children.
in their own diet plani
What's And because of gradual
suffered
end
1!! I didrft. men thak,⠀
GRADUAL
-"No, I was
I was afraid you didn't,
BUE
1 CUT DOWN on carbos changes in the shape of an
UT doctor hire wam that hydratesbread potatoes, sugar aging pine, the heart- urually I suppose you're inquiring about nobody should ignore the because you need less energy is pushed out of place to some the six-wivel Well: 1. ress ravages of the years.--In, thin-as-you get older. warning they tramo Back to Methuselah Itule No Piz
Well Abend for Longer Lite,
20soften the mental and
extent in old people.
the same thing applica-study, a
the book eye protenoneliness
didn't want to sound
WMO man who fits had six wiyon ng
go on galing just of my deliberately putting
ent you slim at 65 yola 16.
healthy than in a willing
(and) mas ant dugo wh the kyni
I'd say it was a piece of
world
Galiko, Baudelaire...” and
s Bee h-
carth
bitter
And
the
a meaningful life's work
wanted 10 with their endless.
Fot
Somehow
For
labour this is the story of how
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Ion 41 pointed out that no man making a lot of money-wed dim, falima ton of what such
before
dimarsted Laus probably more arileula o dn amen analize have had yö under». AVA Gardtier and clarinet, anywayze
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sttil play, of courto.
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