LORD NUFFIELD DENIES INSOMNIA

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22072, 21 April 1937, Page 9

LORD NUFFIELD DENIES INSOMNIA

. $ “I SLEEP LIKE ANY OTHER MAN” LONDON,' April 19. “I had a fine holiday, but I am furious at the reports that I don’t sleep at nights,” said Lord Nuffield in an interview with the “Star” on his return after his tour of Australia and New Zealand. He added: “One hour’s sleep a month for 10 years! It is ridiculous. I sleep like any other man—eight hours every night.” Lord Nuffield said that he was most impressed with the progress of Australia and New Zealand, and their potentialities for development. Extensive settlement by British people would undoubtedly come, and these lands would then develop into some of the richest in the Commonwealth of Nations. [The question as to whether insomnia was the secret of Lord Nuffleld’s energy was raised by a lecture given last month by Professor John Hilton, who described Lord Nuffield as a‘medical phenomenon. He said that Lord Nuffield’s lying in bed conscious of everything about him and rarely losing consciousness was part of an intense mental awareness and actively contributing to an amazing personality. Professor Hilton said that Lord Nuffield had not slept in the ordinary way since he was a youth, and he enjoyed only about one hour’s sleep in each month.]