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Otago Witness, Issue 3888, 18 September 1928, Page 36

The fattest American, M r Emeny Titman, died recently, at the age of 39. Some time ago, with a weight of 50 stone, he consulted a medico, who told him that he had only a year to live. As he left the doctor’s surgery, he decided to follow the Biblical injunction to “ eat and drink, for to-morrow we die,” and like the rich man in the New .Testament, he “ fared sumptuously every day.” At the end of the year he was only 39 stone in weight, and minus his money. He became a Turkish bath masseur, and a taxi driver, for the doctor’s word was not far out, and it took eight men to lift his body into the coffin. Commending an entrant in the recitation class at the Auckland Competitions (reports the Star), Professor Maxwell M alker said that the competitor rightly waited for quietness before making a start. “It is the business of the audienceto be quiet, and a performer should be in a- position to command that silence,” added the judge.