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Show pectancy tables. Mr. Smith thinks that the "fev-erishness" "fev-erishness" of modern times, the strain on those occupying public places and the worry that attaches attach-es to responsibility explain the fact that the men and women who achieve reputations are dying: close to the age of fifty. AVOID FAME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE LONG If you want o live to a ripe old age, set your mind against the limelight of fame and forget the effort to achieve a reputation that classes you with the great and near-great. This advice is based on the report re-port of Dr. Mapheus Smith, sociologist sociol-ogist for the Selective Service System, Sys-tem, who studied the life history of those included in "Who's Who in America" and discovered that the vast majority of them did not reach the age promised by life ex- |