PERSONNEL: 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:

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

¶ Takes his troubles to lunch with him.

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

¶ 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.