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M

Slimming Craze

Is Catching

MOUNTLESS

⚫ and women are becoming slimmer. Or, at least, doing their best to become so.

Why, during the past six months, have people decided to take weight off?

One

answer

Hes in the fact that it is a lot easier to day to reduce weight than

it was two years ago.

If you want, an indication that alimming is not con-

fined to the vain or the humble, witness that Presi dent weight 180 lb. target

Truman

(present

175

Ib.) has embarked on 靠 slimming contest with his military aide.

When, earlier this year, London newspapers report. ed that Mr Randolph Chur- chill had taken a bet to rid two himself of 4 ib. in months, lettera poured into Fleet St. oflices.

Most

women;

of them

they wanted

name

from

to

A

know the

of the Harley-street dietician who was advising Mr Churchill.

Three methods

DEANNA DURBIN

these

cronto appears under her chin and her studio

drops her.

were

On

And it is probably to dicting that the would-be slim even- tually turn.

There is no bard rule, Diets vary according to the patient Bat the basis of all stimming diets is the resist - ance to carbohydelen and fat Intakes. the avoidance of water retention.

Shortly. this

A similar amount wus token from Lord Mildmay, rider of Cromwell in the Grond National.

May be dangerous

more

to

WHAT MAKES women 50 much

anxious elin now than before? The auswer, given by une doctor, was the old

to avery problem, from juvenile delin- eurney to divorce.

Jew means

answer

"Up lo a point, warned this doctor, "slimming Ex very sensible.

There are degrees of nutri- tion where you can put on an potatoes, bread, starchy foods, unhealthy fat, but you should

Gud no alcohol. Boiled mutton realise that intelligent treal-

rother

And

balance.

than renst beef Yorkshire pudding.

Steamed ent Ash rather than fried potatoes. An apple rather than a quarter of chocolates,

Planned dict

depends on Intelligent

"It is possible for a WONIAD to slim without losing her health and mental powers. But aver:limming, beyand being useless, can be dangerous.

ONE DOCTOR questioned "There are certain society sald that he zometimes women today who Invo starts his patients with two renched this point. They may days in bed, cating nothing but took very elegant, but they toast and water. Then begins have left themselves with по the planned diet.

This may, but not altoava, mean a plaas of hot water and juice of lemon'upon rising.

Breakfast of grapefruit and Lousi. Lean meat and green vebetables for lunch. A dinner lean meat, or again of cold steamed fish with a salad (no Innvernalse), and fresh fruit to follow.

The hardy ones

vigour and no brains."

Causes of fatness

WHAT

CAUSES fatness

in Britain today, when to a well-rationed layman a certain degree of thinness would have seemed more logical?

"Today's diet is unbalanced," suggested one doctor. ***The ordinary housewife has to take wint is obtainable in the shops. The calorie value of what she

from week

to

"It sprang up suddenly, the IGNORE FOR

stimulated by the publicity moment the reasons why men and women want to given the drug. We

naked for more and more of

BUT NOT all those who Rats may alter slim, consider the means. the drug na trade

week." sources are seeking the lightness They

diet, exercise, are

step of

So it would seem that the their happler It was a headache ran dry. drugs.

brethren are turning to quick- busy lttle carbohydrates sei in. to get people stocked up.

by Mr Strachey sale drug or diet. There are motion.

try to being combated by an equally "Eventually, we were unable the hardy

ones who to comply fully with the de- work off fat by punishing it in busy chemical set free by his

colleague Mr Bevan, nonds and had to arrange for gymnasia and Turkish baths. new plant, which is just begin-

ing to work."

two

Since tho first courses require effort and will-power, the third is the most popular. And, by cour- tesy of Mr Aneurin Bevan, the cheapest.

Under the National Health Act it is pos- sible for doctors to prescribe the use of a drug called Dexedrine

for slimming purposes.

Faulty diet

Little trymnasia, previously used by sportsmen in training, are now finding their clienta increased by tired business

offico sedentary

by

MOST DOCTORS are will- men,

by im stars who ing to prescribe the drug if workers, they aro satisfied that the have seen in Judy Garland and putient really needs to reduce Deartan Durbin the shape of weight.

Nor is it the only drug that

slimming. extracti

It is one of the benzedrine can be used for group of drugs, an appetite- There

are thyroid killer normally used for al- which can be bought across the coholics. It was first pro- duced in America, and has without prescription.

counter of chemists* shop#

things to come,

Open all night

bro

'J. P.

-(London Express Servtor)

TIM Man Gives Up Telephones -After 39 Years

T

HE man who intro- duced TIM, the talk ing clock and transfor charge calls to London, has rotired after 89 years' work on telephones. He is Mr.Walter Clark Griffith (no Gnal "8," I'm a singular man), who was controller of London's telephones.

He was 21 when he joined the National Telephone Com- |pany in 1910, and transferred to the GPO two Fears later whon the Government took over,

Born In. New Zealand he came to England when he was about three, went to school at Canterbury, and was at Lon- don University.

One Sweet Can 'Spoil It All!.

WOMAN

A WOMAN who walks

siimming campaigit, 'will replace the weight tho Joney If she enta one

clincolate.

This was

wald by Dr Arnold Bender, dietician.

at a meeting in London of the

Advisory

Athletes'

Connell,

He gave details of the energy Med In Various sports and work.

ed

Gardening.---Four

hun-

dred calories are expend- during a tang after- noon's gardenlag. Thin ja the number used by varsman in the University Boat Race,

'r¢cnlse-k

•

ב

particularly long set-1,200 calorica.

Football

sibly 1,500.

match-Pun-

100 yarda sprint.10.

Olymple marathon - 2,500.

Channel swim-10,000.

What matters ta. the time taken to expending calories, sald Dr Bender..

Miner's needs

Food must be caten during a long expenditure

energy

replaco calories lost.

of

to

A good meal can replace 1,000 calories.

Protein requirements depend on the size of the body, and not on the work done.

Thug an 11-sions

miner requires no proteins than

coal- moro

trade

D

unton leader of the ELINO weight, and requtrea less than #

18-stone bus con- ducior.

MR. GRIFFTTIL

He introduced the talking clock and transfer charge calls.

""The transfer charge system Was welcomed, but it was a ,'boomerang' for me," he said todiny. "My children would ring me from many places, and i had pay the bill"

- Mr Grifth--went-to-America to study the telephone system there And saw the "talking clock,"

of

He was among the pioneers the transatlantic tel:phone service, and many test calle were put through to his home in Warsingham, Surrey.

"Onco a bell rang and X thought it was a friend tele- phoning. When I picked up the man at the the recelver other end said ho was the off radio officer of a ship Sumatra." It was another test call for Mr Grimth.

1933 FLASHBACK, Jane Cain," £ho girl, who first made TIM, the talking clock, itamons.

Another incident he recalls. was when King George V tele- phoned the Prince of Wales, in Santiago. Mr Griffith went to Buckinghom Palace to super-

vise the call.

He was also associated with the introduction of "on do- mand" system for long distance telephone calls. "At one time. it took anything from 30 min- utes to an hour, and sometimes more, to call.

say Newcastle,

from London," he said.

Early next month Me and Mrs Griffith leave for a holi- day in New Zealand, and will go to Australia to see a married PON.

With them will be their other children, a 30-your-old son, and a daughter, 20.

-{London Express Service)

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

AT A LARGE bathe in Harrow-road, London, the chart of customers has sudden- ly shown a marked riser

NEW YORK. "We used to close at six in VEN the police admitted the evening." sald the recently that it is no

*Now We keep

longer safe for women to 700 men a travel alone at night in New

York's underground.

The+ medical information manufactured in boen

department of a large manufac Britain since 1946.

turing chernist, aware of the But it was only this year increasing demand for these manager. that news of it reached the thyrold extracts, save a warm open practically all night. Wo general public, plus the in- Ing of unintelligent formation that it could be them. obtained on prescription.

of 1150

have more than weck coming in now.

"Normally we used to reserve "Thyroid extracts stimulate Sundays for women, and never the utilisation of food in the had more than a dozen or to body processes Big demand

and thus cut Now we get nearly 50 women down excess weight.

and on Sundays

are turning DOCTORS FELT the

"But too many Teople make them away at six o'clock." Immediately. fold puckaer pressure

as to how “many

months of this year there have indiscriminate Use of them could be responsible for serious been 10,872 arrests.

The police estimated that for accidents" every arrest

And at least five gel they do not cure

Iro insisted a cold, but away with their crimes.

remove

"Reign of Terror in the Sub- merely way," "streamed one New York cold's symptoms. paper, calling for more under- ground police.

some of the

74-year-old

IN CHICAGO

Joseph Well is known D3 Margaret the king of the confidence President's tricksters. Four years ago bo Frank wrote a book about his feats Michigan in fleecing the American.

Nor is it safe for men. Gangs of hoodlume and petty thieves have left the brightly lit streets OMANCE TALK: and literally gone underground. Truman, the They ride the all-night trains. singer daughter, and

Handy,

young Some just attack passengers they do not

like their looks.

One doctor reports that be tablets they should take." Relieved of 51/2 lb. for fun because is now prescribing it to one. "Nobody should attempt to 1150 drugs for alimming without in 30 of his patients.

the advice of a doctor."

The 12.30, 3,00,

7,00 & 9.30

P.M.

Then the manufacturers felt the rush.

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"The demand is now several times: greater,' they say.

NANCY

DAT, MUSIC IS SWELL FOR DANCIN'

No hard rule

.

newsmat.

ם

public.

He'

disclosed that he had

begun OCTORS have More often they knock down

to served 41 prison terms, that Richard RECENTLY,

them, or and rob

the stampede he had bilked a banker out of plump radio passengers

try to stop Dimbleby, commentator, took his ample steal bags or pick pockets. for America's new "cold cure" £100,000 in a stock, deal, that

Doctor Richard Kern, h often they molest tablets.

total earning from his form to a Jermyn-street Turkish Still mora

the drugs from wits was between an expert on with baths

£3,000,000 doubl❘ women. some

could anything

New Yorkers be whether

were shocked which the tablets are derived, and £4,000,000. Well recently today to read the police figures. sald that wholesale use of them went to gaol for the 42nd time. IN MOST. cases, doctors done about it.

normal

Police accused him of swindling year there may be dangerous. prescribing the Use of

relieved are 1,500 arrests

The sum involved was The

on the sub- management

a depressing, nuna slimming drugs propose an ac. companying diet

him of 51416.

way.

But in the first eight hypnotic effect," he said, "and 21.

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