All Work

After thumping the chests and listening to the hearts of nearly 1,000 businessmen, the Benjamin Franklin Clinic of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia last week told what makes a tired businessman tired. He gets that way because he:

P: Cannot delegate authority, so never takes a real vacation.*

P: Takes his troubles to lunch with him.

P: Carries them home in a briefcase at night instead of leaving them at the office.

P: Has no day-in, day-out hobby, but tries to purge his system of a week's bottled-up jitters in a rugged physical workout once a week.

As a result, concluded Dr. Leonard W. Parkhurst, the clinic's medical director, many businessmen "need the advice of psychiatrists to convince them that they must ... be boss of their jobs, not slaves to those jobs." In one group of 63 tested at the clinic, 80% needed medical, surgical or psychiatric treatment. The clinic's time-honored prescription: take it easier.

* Alarmed at the number of businessmen who were dying off at the peak of their careers, a Great Neck, N.Y. group last week started a nationwide campaign called "Relax, U.S.A.," to save and lengthen lives. Take time out every so often to recharge the batteries, said the group, by 1) merely drowsing; 2) leisurely puffing on a cigar; 3) looking at the trees and the clouds.

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