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ebden Corsan and Lillian Armstrong, whose pert looks belie her years, were married here Tuesday. Wedding guests were served orange juice and coconut cream milk. The bridegroom has been wintering here for the past 13 years. His home is Echo Valley, Islington, Toronto. His wife retired last month after 30 years of teaching in Toronto public schools. "I'm sure we'll be happy," Mrs. Corsan said. "We have mutual interests" Both credit their youthfulness and agility to vegetarianism, drinking gallons of fruit juices and staying outdoors as much as possible. Corsan, whose sturdy 155 pounds are stretched on a six-foot frame, can husk a coconut with his bare hands in less than two minutes, no mean feat. He operates a large experimental nut farm in Toronto, and has a 16-acre tract just south of here where he grows seven varieties of bananas and experiments with macadamia nuts, furnished him by the University of Hawaii. He works the farm singlehanded. Corsan says he taught another physical culturist, Bernarr MacFadden, to swim in 1909 when he was an instructor at a Brooklyn YMCA. He says swimming helps keep him in shape and takes a daily dip in the ocean. The Corsans will spend their honeymoon right on the nut farm. "We might have a few fights," he said. "But they won't last long. She's too young to fight. And besides, she can outrun an English hare." Broken Neck Fails to Halt Plans of "Youngster", 94 TORONTO, June 12--Physical Culturist George Hebden Corsan--just turned 94--says he is going to throw a birthday party Saturday, Right now he's in the hospital recovering from a broken neck suffered when he fell 20 feet from a tree May 27. Mr. Corsan--a vegetarian who once labeled medicine "a jumbled heap of ignorance"--didn't want to go to the hospital at all. But doctors thought he'd better, since the fracture was about like that suffered by a man hanged on the gallows. He agreed to go after being assured the visit would only be for X-rays. Since he's been in the hospital Mr. Corsan has fared--over the protest of dietitians--on nothing but orange juice. Yesterday he observed his birthday by eating a banana and a little black bread. Doctors said Mr. Corsan missed severing his spinal cord by a quarter inch and had two skull fractures. To almost any other person, they said, the injury would be fatal. Mr. Corsan was married for the third time last January in Florida.--Washington Evening Star, June 1
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