Just Like Anybody

Bulletin on Joseph Stalin's health (issued by Dr. Stalin in person): "Brilliant Soviet scientists" have taken him in hand "in an almost dismaying manner" and made him feel a good ten years younger than his 71. That is what he recently told a visiting party of Baltic physicians, as reported last week in an Estonian newspaper. "As you gentlemen can see," Stalin continued, puffing clouds of smoke, "I get older just like other people, but since I changed my diet-two years ago, I feel remarkably well, and I still smoke much, even though the tobacco in my pipe contains hardly any nicotine at all."

* Sample dinner menu two years ago: hors d'oeuvres with vodka, soup, shashlik, vegetable, fruit tart, tea, or coffee and chicory.

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