People: The Way Things Are

"When I see you on the street," President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked his Columbia University students, "will you please say 'hello'—because some people who don't belong to the university occasionally pass me on 116th Street and they think I'm crazy when I say hello."

Shapely Dancer Ruth St. Denis, whose hair has been snow-white for the last 49 years, let the Chicago Sun-Times in on the secret of her youth. For five minutes every morning she stands on her head, which "relieves the inner organs from the continual pressure of gravity and gives the...

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