Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 233, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 June 1980 — Page 14

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, June 5, 1980

Still a 'fair lady Audrey Hepburn leads a life of charm and grace

c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Thin, gracious and very European, she usually wore Givenchy gowns or maybe just slim black slacks with a shirt tucked inside, but she always looked elegant with just the right touch of mischievous wit. Men almost always named her as their idea of the ideal woman and women always said they would love to look like her. Whether she was eating lunch at a Swiss ski resort with Cary Grant or driving along the French Riviera in a Mercedes 300 with Albert Finney or just takig breakfast at Tiffany’s, she seemed to lead a perfect life of charm and grace. Last week. Audrey Hepburn was back in New York, completing another movie, a comedy written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and she was sitting in the Case Pierre, eating mint chocolates and macaroons. It was an appropriate setting the dusky pink walls reflected the glow of candles and musicians played a sarabande. Self-conscious by nature, she is overcome, she says, by size and strangers, and the intimacy of the hotel makes her feel safe. "I love making movies.” she says in that wonderfully elegant voice, as she leans forward so her press agent can light her cigarette. "When I’m not working, I miss it like I’d miss chocolate or a concert. But I could survive without working and I couldn’t survive without my family. That, I suppose, is why my private life has always taken precedence, why I’ve done so few films in recent years.” Since she married Andrea Dotti, an Italian psychiatrist, in 1969. Miss Hepburn has been living a quiet, private life, the life of a wife and mother of two boys: Sean, her son from her former marriage, to Mel Ferrer, is 19 years old; Luca is 10. Dividing her time between a flat in Rome and a country house in Geneva, she attends medical conventions with her husband, works in her garden and occasionally paints. “Movies have no bearing in my private life.” she says. “The fact I’ve made movies doesn’t mean breakfast gets made or that my child does better in his

House Call Encouraging findings in dieting to control senility

By G. Timothy Johnson, M.D. Dear Dr Johnson: I’ve heard that some doctors are ex-, perimenting with diet as a way to control senility. Have you heard anything about this? -- Sidney A.. Miami. Fla. Dear Sidney: I’ve heard a little about this work, but I’m not sure we know enough about it to provide any definitive answers. There have been encouraging findings, however. One is that the addition of a substance called choline to some patients’ diets can help alleviate the symptoms of a condition known as tardive dvskenesia. This develops after mental patients have been on psvcho-active drugs for long periods. The symptoms include almost continuous, controlled movements of the mouth and, particularly, rolling of the tongue. In addition, there is newer but still very tentative evidence that the addition of choline to the diet also can help with a problem called Alzheimer’s disease, often known as premature senility. A research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston now suspect that choline helps such patients by increasing the supply of a neuro-transmitter in the brain. The neuro-transmitter -- a chemical that carries signals between brain cells -- is known as acetylcholine. The researchers feel that a declining amount of acetylcholine in the brain may. in older people, contribute to the decline of memory. By boosting the amount of choline, from which the brain makes

B.J. Becker Sylvia executes a coup

South dealer. Both sides vulnerable. NORTH ♦ A J 5 4 S?Q 2 0 10 9 8 5 4 3 ♦ j WEST EAST ♦ K Q 8 7 410 9 6 3 2 <? J 6 3 10 875 OKQ J 0 6 ♦432 ♦876 SOUTH 47AK94 0A 7 2 ♦ A K Q 10 9 5 The bidding: South West North East 2 ♦ Pass 2 0 Pass 2 V Pass 2 + Pass 6 NT Opening lead king of diamonds. It was impossible to anticipate the type of error Sylvia might make next.

acetylcholine, they hope to improve memory. It also has* been found that choline can be added to the diet effectively in an ordinary food substance, lecithin, which is commonly added to pudding and other creamy foods as an emulsifier. Lecithin also is available in bulk in many health food stores, but the Boston researchers warn that this is not the kind of lecithin they’re talking about. What they’ve used in experiments is a highly purified form of a particular type of lecithin not yet available commercially. Also, they’ve found it’s not always desirable to add choline directly to the diet. As it turns out, too much choline causes the patients to produce a distinct and unpleasant fishy odor. Now, putting all this together, there does seem to be promise to this research. But it’s still much too early to go dashing out to buy lecithin in hopes of restoring memory. I’d advise waiting until the research is further along and we understand more about the subject. Dear Readers: Center for Disease Control in Atlanta has reported on a study in the use of ether for genital herpes infections. The results suggest improvement in 75 per cent of those treated with ether. Unfortunately, 77 per cent of those in the study who received placebos (medically inactive substances) also reported improvement. This points up the difficulty in measuring the effectiveness of a proposed treatment for herpes. I’ve cited these results as a reminder that we must be

Sylvia bid some hands well, played some dummies passably, and defended acceptably on occasion. But her partners nevertheless felt that they were perched on a volcano, never knowing what catastrophe might suddenly befall them or when some peculiar process of thought would take possession of her and topple everything in sight. These adventures into the unknown occurred with distressing frequency, and most members of the club trembled fearfully when they cut Sylvia as a partner. They knew that weird things might happen, and they also knew that no amount of prayer or cajolery could swerve Sylvia from her predestined course. But with all that, Sylvia occasionally accomplished a feat that served for months as a conversation piece among the other members. Here is an example of the kind of play that made Sylvia the darling of the club.

homework. I still have to function as a woman in a household.” Since “Wait Until Dark” in 1967, the actress has, in fact, made only three pictures: “Robin and Marian” in 1976, “Bloodline” last year, and now this new film, “They All Laughed.” She has not appeared on the stage since she played thd title role in “Ondine” on Broadway in 1954. Theater, she explains, is far too time-consuming to even consider, and in the case of recent movies, she has only accepted parts that do not commit her to lengthy stays away from home. Audrey Dotti, as she calls herself, is reluctant to give interviews or speak about her personal life. / And yet, the sudden and temporary return to the world of cameras and lights and adulation does not seem to have unnerved her. Although she is shy about talking to people, the doctor’s wife seems to actually relish all the attention she receives in New York. Of the crowds of admirers who wait in the hotel lobby to give her gardenias and other tokens of affection, she says, "I’m fascinated by them it’s not embarrassing at all. It creates atmosphere. I’m thrilled to see that people aren’t jaded.” In “They All Laughed” Miss Hepburn portrays a European tycoon’s lonely wife, who comes to New York for a short interlude of romance and escape. It is a role not unlike her very first in an American film that of a frustrated princess who takes off on a brief escapade with a commoner in “Roman Holiday” and Bogdanovich says he created it specifically for her. “All the things I could say about Audrey could also be said of this character,” the director says. “She’s witty and fragile and strong. What I think is interesting is bringing an actor and character together so you don’t know where one leaves off and the other begins.” Pointing out that she is an actress who relies on instinct rather than technique. Miss Hepburn agrees that she is most comfortable with roles suited to her own personality. “You have to refer to your own experience what else have you got?” she

suspicious of new claims for effective treatments of herpes and other little-understood infections. Dear Dr. Johnson: Can exposure of the head and neck to radiation cause thyroid cancer? I’m one of those persons who was treated for acne with radiation in the 19405. I’ve been warned by my doctor that I’m at higher risk for developing tumors on my thyroid gland. I recently read somewhere, however, that this supposed connection between radiation exposure and thyroid cancer is now open to question. What’s the truth? - Bert M., Fort Lauderdale. Fla. Dear Bert: Based on several excellent studies done in the early 19705, we’ve kept alert to the chance that persons on whom radiation was used for the head and neck area might be at a higher than normal risk of thyroid cancer. Now, however, that “linkage” has been opened to question by a study reported in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. It suggests that there’s no difference, in terms of incidence of thyroid cancer, between those treated with head and neck irradiation and those not irradiated. To be frank, the answers just aren’t in yet. We’ll need continuing studies to be certain. In the meantime, I think it’s wise to advise persons with histories of radiation to have periodic examinations of their thyroid gland. (c) 1980 by The Chicago Tribune

a coup

West led a diamond and Sylvia won it with the ace and cashed six clubs, West discarding two spades and a heart, while East discarded three spades. Sylvia now played the Q-K-A of hearts and then, having seen the jack fall and proceeding under the delusion that her nine was a trick, she tried to cash it. This inadvertence had a devastating effect on West, as this was the position when Sylvia played the nine: North ♦ A J 010 West East ♦K Q 410 9 OQ <?10 South 9 O 7 2 West had no safe discard when the heart was led. Whatever he discarded, dummy would score the last two tricks.

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says, recalling her title role in “Sabrina,” that Cinderella story of the chauffeur’s daughter who marries the rich employer’s son. “Sabrina was a dreamer who lived a fairy tale and she was a romantic an incorrigible romantic, which I am. I could never be cynical. I wouldn’t dare. I’d roll over and die before that. After all. I’ve been so fortunate in my own life I feel I’ve been born under a lucky star.” Having never studied acting formally, Miss Hepburn says she depends to a great degree upon simple discipline discipline acquired from her years of ballet. As meticulous in her work as she is in her appearance, she always arrives early for her calls, never does a scene until she is sure she understands it, and oversees every detail of her own performance including the selection of her wardrobe. She credits her directors among them Billy Wilder, William Wyler and George Cukor with her early and continued success. “I’m not trying to be coy,” she said, pouring herself a cup of mint tea. “But I really am a product of those men. I’m no Laurence Olivier, no virtuoso talent. I’pi basically rather inhibited and I find it difficult to do things in front of people. What my directors have had in common is that they’ve made me feel secure, made me feel loved. I depend terribly on them. I was a dancer and they managed to do something with me as an actress that was pleasing to the public.” She paused to recall some of her film roles Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady,” the book clerk turned high-fashion model in “Funny Face,” Rima the bird girl in “Green Mansions” and then, considering her own remarkable life again, went on. “My own life has been much more than a fairy tale,” she said softly. “I’ve had my share of difficult moments, but it’s like there was always a light at the end of the tunnel. Whatever difficulties I’ve gone through. I’ve always gotten a prize at the end.” She sat quietly for a moment, then pulled a tiny silver compact from her purse and carefully retouched her lipstick. She had one more piece of chocolate, and then she was gone.

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