Word: faddists
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...included a high quota of businessmen in smocks-artists who paint merely pleasant pictures merely for the market-but it also showed what the country's best painters were up to. Very few seemed content to imitate the European "masters" or to ride the rickety bandwagons of faddist art. Even fewer were producing stuff worth imitating. Their most successful efforts had neither the excitement of Paris art, nor the significance of Mexico's Government-sponsored murals; but they did show a groping sincerity, a heartening attempt to be themselves...
...Indian National Congress party, which has demanded complete independence, appeared to be in a receptive mood. Congress' Mohandas Gandhi spoke with easy informality of Sir Stafford: "I once had the pleasure of meeting him. The one thing we had in common is that he is a food faddist [vegetarian...
Died. Dr. Robert George Jackson, 83, the Canadian Bernarr Macfadden; of cancer; near Toronto. Food faddist and exercise enthusiast for some 30 years, he said "God has provided the means by which we can always be well," lived chiefly on fruits, nuts and grain. Turning his faddery into a business, he manufactured wide-selling cereal foods, broadcast his picture in a breechclout. Canadians knew best his "Roman Meal"; U.S. citizens knew two other products whose trade names Alexander Woollcott shudderfully disclosed: "Lishus," and "Bekus Puddy...
Next great food crusader was Wilbur Olin Atwater, who in the 1870s, following European methods, figured out the number of calories different occupational groups should consume. No vitamin faddist, Atwater urged U. S. workmen to fill their calory quotas with greater "energy-yielders"-meat, potatoes and bread-instead of watery stuff low in calories...
Born. To Dr. St. Louis Estes, 73, famed California food faddist (nuts, raw foods), and his wife: their seventh son, twelfth child; in San Francisco. Like all the other Estes boys, this one will be called St. Louis. Estes daughters have no first names...