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...third woman, Deon Craddock, followed a mixed diet of cereals, eggs, potatoes, vegetables and ice cream ranging between 1,100 and 1,200 calories per day. After a week she had reduced 2⅜ lb. to 142⅜ lb. The three expect to continue their "diet derby" until the month's end. But they are not altogether happy about the springtime sideshow they are providing for Chicago. Dr. Fishbein gave a lugubrious interview about their glands. Dr. Bundesen was making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound...
...Savoy Cocktail Book, by Harry Craddock...
Author Maugham has written 18 novels, books of short stories, 24 plays. Some of them: Ashenden, or the British Agent, The Casuarina Tree, The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs, Craddock, Of Human Bondage, On a Chinese Screen, The Trembling of a Leaf; (plays) The Circle, East of Suez, The Letter, The Sacred Flame, Rain...
...thought he had a vocation for the priesthood. He married only because his confessor told him it was his duty to continue his line. There was no love between Sir Joseph and his pretty young wife- when she was seduced by the fascinating, Protestant Lord Charles Craddock his distaste for her turned to horrified hate. But he took her back, again on advice of his confessor, on condition that she should never see her illegitimate daughter. Then he made her the mother of four children. She submitted to her penitential duty, died in the last childbirth. Sir Joseph married again...
...years ago, has had a steady sale ever since. Miss Thompson, a short story of his, was made into a play?Rain?with startling results. His dramas, however, are potboilers. His other novels, short-story collections : The Moon and Sixpence, The Trembling of a Leaf, The Hero, Mrs. Craddock, Liza of Lambeth, On a Chinese Screen...