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...studio looks like a cross between a locker room and a livestock barn at a county fair. He built and designed it himself, with the help of assistants. It might well be the best facility of its kind in the East...
...eight, Daughter Marjorie was gluing Postum boxtops in the family's Battle Creek barn. By age ten she was accompanying her father to board meetings and factory tours. With C.W.'s death in 1914, Marjorie Post inherited several million dollars and control of the Postum Cereal Co., which by then included Post Toasties and Grape Nuts cereals. At the urging of her second husband, Manhattan Stockbroker Edward F. Hutton, the Postum Co. began adding a cupboard full of new products. The Postum Co. was renamed the General Foods Corp...
...them, which he brought 150 miles from his farm in Wapello. While his ten-year-old son Kenny tries the 40-ft. giant slide outside, Grouwinkel and his wife and younger son Michael, 3, spend most of their time watching over their animals in the semidarkness of the swine barn. The three-year-old keeps tapping the hogs with a short stick, in order, his mother says, "to keep 'em awake. Lordy, little Michael keeps those hogs so awake they've hardly had a wink of sleep since we got here...
...sheep barn they are judging black-faced Suffolks. As the owners hold their animals' heads with one hand and rumps with the other, a judge crouches in the center of the ring, staring each bleating contestant in the eye. He gets up, walks over and sticks a finger into a sheep's chest to see how firm it is. If firm, the two dozen spectators murmur approval: if the judge's finger sinks deep into the sheep's chest, a groan goes up. After half an hour of prodding and measuring, groaning and murmuring and bleating...
That was not Mrs. Simon's only problem. She has received hate mail and threatening phone calls. One night she heard someone prowling around in her barn. "I became frightened, so I called the police." she recalls. "A nice officer searched my barn and concluded: 'Aw, they're just mad at you because of that book...