Peerless reading for the hospital bed. Norman Cousins, longtime editor of Saturday Review, acquired a second fame a few years ago with an article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine chronicling his self-inflicted recovery from a crippling and supposedly irreversible ailment (his spine was disintegrating). With the aid of his unusual doctor Cousins got the hell out of the hospital, took full responsibility for his own treatment, and began trying stuff—massive vitamin C, massive cheerfulness (the famous home-showing of Marx Brothers and Candid Camera films). The miracle of cure plus Cousins’ intellectual and lively