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Tuesday, June 14, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
High Blood Pressure Reducing Drug Found To Work Consistently
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R; Prof. Keith
S. Grimson -t?f Duke University
School of iledicine tried out
"the multitude" of high blood
pressure reducing drugs on 209
patients over a five-year period
Around
Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBT
United Press Correspondent
Hollywood (U.R) On a rich,
elegant movie set actress Joan
Collins is portraying the fabu
lous Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw,
the "Gibson
Girl" of the
Gay Nineties
Nineties over
whose love
mil lion
aire Harry
Thaw shot
playboy Stan
ford White.
Aline Mosby Twenty
miles across
town from the movie fantasy at
20th Century Fox, the real Ev--
elyn sat quietly in her simple
art studio today.
Forty-nine years ago next
week June 25, 1906 Evelyn's
husband killed White in a fit of
jealousy at the Madison Square
Garden supper club, and the
beautiful showgirl became a na
tional figure.
Mrs. Thaw, now 70, moved
here six years ago from New
York to teach sculpting.
Instead of diamonds and vel
vet, she usually wears an artist's
smock. In her small studio, on
the edge of bustling downtown
Los Angeles, are several statues
of female nudes she has sculpted.
The only signs of her glitter
ing past hang in the bedroom
drawings of her by famed
Charles Dana Gibson when she
was 16 and the toast of Broad
way in "Flora Dora" and "The
Wild Rose."
Friendly and Frank
But friendly, frank Evelyn
has no yearning for her past
glory.
"I wish I'd never gone into
show business," she said. "I
never belonged in it. I was mis
cast In life. I really belonged in
the art world. I could have risen
to heights as a sculptress.
"Most of my life I've been
dressed in fanfcy clothes like a
horse. I like to wear just a tunic
and sandals now. I lived in high
ly decorated homes. I'm sur
feited with that.". - "
Evelyn at 14 became an ar
ist's model in Philadelphia, a
shocking profession then. At 16
she was a Broadway beauty and
the object of. rivalry between
Thaw and White who was not
hampered by having a wife at
home.
White entertained beautiful
Evelyn in lavish style. In his
upstairs private room at one
club was a red velvet swing.
His lady love would ride, "High
er and higher, until White
pulled a string and my feet
would crash through a huge,
paper parasol."
Fox titled the movie on her
life, "The Girl in the Red Vel
vet Swing."
Son a JetPilot
Evelyn married Thaw in 1905.
After the shooting, she suffered
two years of trials. Thaw, now
dead, was sentenced to a mental
hospital. Evelyn launched a
nightclub career to support their
son, now a jet pilot in Los An
geles. Evelyn Nesbit has kept the
beauty that brought her both
fame and tragedy. She still
wears her long' graying hair in
a gay nineties pompadour. Her
eyes are beautiful and there's
scarcely a wrinkle on her face
and neck.
"They had to change the
movie script because of censors,"
she laughed,
f "One thing I told them. They
had Stanford serving potato
salad at a narty. Why, he never
served anything but partridge
and quail. Oh, my dear, the way
we ate in those days."
'Draft Ike' Movement
Shapes Up in Detroit
Detroit (U.R) A "draft Eisen
hower for reelection" movement
was shaping up today among
the vanguard of 1600 delegates
who were expected to attend the
Young Republican national con
cention here.
Early arrivals for the conven
tion, which begins tomorrow,
were drafting resolutions ex
pressing confidence in the Presi
dent and urging him to seek re
election in the next campaign.
Some of the early 'arrivals
said they would 'support a reso
lution to draft Mr. Eisenhower
if he does not seek the nomination.
Japan, Philippines
In Tentative Agreement
Manila (U.R) Philippine
Ambassador Felino Neri an
nounced today that Japan and
the Philippines had "tentatively"
agreed to settle Japan's World
War II reparations debt to the
Philippines for S800.000.000.
The agreement was approved
by the Philippine government
and now awaits formal action by
the Japanese.
and found that one worked con
sistently well with a minimum
of trouble.
His views, as expressed at
last week's meeting of the
American Medical Association
and in the AMA Journal
were so opposed to those of
Prof. Robert Sterling Palmer of
Harvard, as expressed in the
New England Journal of Medi
cine, that the layman could well
wonder.
But only the layman thinks
high blood pressure in one in
dividual is the same as high
blood pressure in another indi
vidual. Most laymen don't know
that even the term, high blood
pressure, is a riddle, and that
some people thrive on pressures
which destroy Ot'er people.
Switzerland Railway Boosts Billy Graham
Zurich, Switzerland (U.R)
Switzerland's nationa'l railway
gave Billy Graham a boost today
by cutting fares for thousands of
persons traveling cross-country
to hear him preach.
Special tickets for the Ameri
can evangelist's Zurich crusade
cut the cost of travel up to 40
per cent, sponsors of the cam
paign reported. Graham
preaches here Saturday and in
Geneva Sunday.
The Swiss, who largely have
ignored the revivalist,s previous
success in other countries,
showed signs of warming up to
his visit here. Ticket applica
tions poured in, and newspapers
splashed their pages with stories
about the 37-year-old preacher.
Dr. Grimson and Palmer
underscored the riddle in blood
pressure. Palmer, who believes
diet is the easiest and most effec
tive way to control it when it
gets distressingly high, longed
for answers to the riddles. Grim
son, who hardly mentioned diet,
Los Angeles-Glendale
Boundary Splits Family
Los Angeles (U.R) -The Los
Angeles City Council has
been asked to move the Los
Angeles-Glendale boundary to
put members of the same fam
ily in 'the same city.
Six families asked that all
of their property be annexed
by Los Angeles because "we
are sick ot telling the regis
trar of voters which bed we
sleep in so we can vote," a
spokesman said.
said he brought down the pres
sures of four patients with the
drug, hexamethonium. Acting on
their own, the patients stopped
taking the drug. In theory, the
pressures should have shown up
again but they didn't. This, the
doctor said, was "interesting."
Hexamethonium was his drug
of choice. It is given in pill form.
Of the seven drugs he tried, it
"has been the best substantiated
by reduction of blood pressure
and relief of symptoms," he said.
In addition, it is an old drug,
no one holds any patents on it;
therefore its costs are not too
burdensome to patients.
Indian Miracle Drug
Neither doctor thought high
ly of rauwolfia serpentina and
its derivatives for high blood
pressure. This old Indian drug
began its current career as a
"miracle drug" for making the
violently insane placid and
livable.
In this last connection, and
to add one more contradiction,
Grimson reported that he had
had to ask for "psychiatric help"
for one of his patients after she
had had rauwolfia a patient
who had every appearance of
mental normality. While taking
this "tranquilizer," he added,
seven of his patients began hav
ing nightmares and had to stop.
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