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From Bran to Bigness. This empire grew out of a coffee grinder, a gasoline stove and $11.95 worth of wheat and bran. In 1895, near Battle Creek, Mich., a health-foods fan named Charles William Post roasted the wheat and bran, ground them, added sweeteners. Result: Postum. Two years later, Post stirred up the same sort of mixture, produced one of the first cold cereals-Grape Nuts. He formed the Postum Cereal Co., plugged his two products as cure-alls for appendicitis, dyspepsia and other ailments. Some magazines balked at his flamboyant advertising, but Post became the foremost advertiser...
...withdrew its remnants in broken retreat. Five wounds, Heinrich's personal quota, do not necessarily make a war novelist, but his first book, The Cross of Iron (TIME, April 23, 1956), proved that no contemporary novelist was better than he at the grisly business of describing the meat grinder of infantry combat. Crack of Doom, another look at the disintegration of German military power, is also an advanced reader for other writers about war on how to do closeups of men fighting hopelessly toward ends that are totally beyond their comprehension...
...Pension Fund Benefit, had Carnegie Hall patrons collapsing with guffaws. Unable to read music, Conductor Kaye directed some favorite classics surprisingly well, had audience and orchestra falling from their chairs by: 1) kissing two girl harpists and a bull fiddler; 2) parodying common conductorial techniques, i.e., "the coffee grinder" and "the meat chopper"; 3) arguing with his oboist over an A; 4) falling into the cellos during a crescendo. Said Kaye: "It's the greatest feeling of neurotic power in the world...
Gamy meat, and O'Neill served it raw. But after a trip through the production grinder, his scenes come out on film looking rather like a row of pretty little veal birds. The stark images of the play are softened on the screen to glossy blowups. The bare New England farmhouse looks like the dream cottage in a rural real-estate prospectus. The actors play in a welter of unrelated styles. But the most important trouble with the picture is that it was ever produced. O'Neill's characters are not people; they are symbols...
Alfred Kubin's two drawings, Edge of the World and Organ Grinder, are openly illustrative without being obvious. Next to the portraits by the much-praised Kokoschka with their hesitant drawing which often falls far short of any satisfying conclusion, Kubin's unpretentious drawings are refreshing. Nevertheless, whatever qualifications one makes in Kokoschka's case, his merits become evident when compared with the unhappy commercialism of Paul Kleinschmidt's At the Bar or Oskar Schlemmer's Three Figures...