The Saturday Evening Post articles from January 1997

The Saturday Evening Post archives from January 1997

Medicare Made Simple: A Consumer's Guide to the Medicare Program.
January 1, 1997... By Denise Knaus 450 pages, Health Information Press, $14.95 For many people, our nation's healthcare system for persons over 65 is so confusing, so labyrinthine, that even doctors and other caretakers simply can't understand it. This problem...

A city tackles cardiac arrest. (Indianapolis, Indiana)
January 1, 1997... It isn't often that a football fan is saved from a heart attack by his favorite NFL team. When Indianapolis Colts team members came to the aid of an Indianapolis man with their new automated defibrillator last fall, it was the start of a new...

Lauren Bacall: some things never change.(Interview)
January 1, 1997... Fifty years after teaching Humphrey Bogart how to whistle, the elegant actress with the unforgettable voice is still getting the best lines. "I hate all these articles and bios on me. Can't we try and come up with something better?" pleads...

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. (excerpt)
January 1, 1997... Once there were four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, who were sent from London during the war to live in the country house of an old Professor and his housekeeper, Mrs. Macready. She was not fond of children, and he was a very l old...

To beard or not to beard.
January 1, 1997... I have finally figured out why I have been taken advantage of all these years. Especially at home. It's my chin. My chin definitely lacks authority. Not that I would want one of those Jay Leno jobs, or anything like that. I'm talking about...

High blood pressure - why do we have it? And what are we doing about it?
January 1, 1997... The most common reason adult Americans go to a doctor is for the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension). As common as it is today, the need for treating hypertension will grow even more. As people grow older, the percentage who develop...

Dr. Myron Weinberger: stalking the silent killer. (hypertension)(Interview)
January 1, 1997... The incidence of strokes, heart attacks, and kidney failure is decreasing as doctors continue to develop more sophisticated techniques to monitor, measure, and treat blood pressure problems. For an update on the ongoing battle against...

A Freeze Out. (short story)
January 1, 1997... So great was his love that not even her father's scandal could stop him. Yet there was a debt owed his parents that he couldn't explain. Here and there in a sunless corner skulked a little snow under a veil of coal specks, but the men taking...

Ahhhhh ... the spa! (Shangri-La Historic Inn, Resort and Spa, Bonita Springs, Florida; Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Sanibel Harbour Resort and Space, Fort Myers, Florida)
January 1, 1997... What better way to shape up for 1997 than to steal away to a sunny spot for a crash course in exercise and nutrition. Over bowls of steamy oatmeal and cups of herbal tea, the breakfast guests gather to indulge in a favorite get-acquainted...