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By
DOROTHY CALHOUN
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ounce for anything
in the world! He's too proud of his grand new figure, and the way he can w ea i clothes now. And everyone who meets him exclaims over his waistline and tells him he looks ten years younger!
" Besides, apart from the fact that he looks and feels better, he couldn't afford to gain weight now. He had to throw away thirtyseven suits of clotlus, after the tailor had cut them down till they wouldn't cut
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Paul poun
Above, how Paul looked in the title role ol "The Kin.: of Jar:." It was while he was in Hollywood for this picture thai he met Margaret, the miracleworker
any further. He outshrank his shirts and underwear. Even his hats and shoes are oitv size smaller. With a b ra n d-ne w w a id robe he has to Stay thin to wear it! Losing that hundred ami ten pounds lost Paul twenty-lour h u n d r e d doll a i s 1 n clothes alone.
"It took him a year to lose the last sixty pounds. 1 didn't want him to reduce too fast. It's dangerous, and. besides, y<>u get flabby unless you tighten up the skin all the time by exercise. I expected, of course to have a lot of trouble keeping him down to a diet, hut the worst trouble came not from Paul, hut from his tat friends.
"They'd buttonhole him and say seriously, 'Listen, old fellow, 1 don't want to frighten you— but honestly, it isn't safe for you to reduce like this. We're intended lor big nun. It'll strain your heart (or kidneys or liver or stomach) — I tried it myself ami the doctors told me I'd die if 1 kepi on. You want to be sure your bealt h, old felli iw !'
"Whenever Paul came m silent ami preoccupied and then broke out w it h 'Margaret, 1 don't feel so good to-da) . All gone anil weak. No pep. Maybe I'd better slow down on the dieting lor a bit —then I'd know that his I at friends had been at bun again.
"1 hadn't been planning Paul's diet under a doctor's orders. I jusi read ever) book written on dieting and took whatever seemed
W mtem;m as he i< lo-Jav — a 18/ -■ , , ■ i i i
,d wonder to the medical Profe> sensible Iron, each one. I thought 1
He weighed 20 pounds at hirth
\ ou're not ruining
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