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Charles William Post, a farm-machinery salesman, in 1893 concocted the first batch of Postum out of wheat, molasses and bran on his kitchen stove in Battle Creek, Mich., where he had gone to boost his strength in a sanitarium run by his future rival, John Harvey Kellogg, creator of corn flakes. Post followed Postum up with Grape Nuts and Post Toasties. He taught his only child the business, had her sit in on directors' meetings at the age of eleven, took her along on factory tours (and incidentally taught her boxing). When she married Socialite Edward B. Close...
...Nevada. The stu dent body consists of 96 recent recruits to the bench in 45 states; they range from a Philadelphia Negro judge to a jurist from Fairbanks, Alaska. First proposed in 1961 by Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, the school has been financed by the W. K. Kellogg and Max C. Fleischmann foundations, may soon have an Eastern branch as well as the one at Reno...
...tapes in Moscow cafeterias. It is responsible for the aching shoulders of bowling-alley patrons on six continents, for the new tendency of Iranian pilots to name their children Mark or David or Joe instead of Reza or Parviz or Taghi, for the popularity of Velveeta cheese in Germany, Kellogg's cornflakes in England and the ubiquitous hotto doggu in Japan...
...Baller, of Pacific Pallsades, Calif. (History and Lit); Jonathan R. Cohen, of Lexington (Chemistry); Robert H. Edelstein, of Norristown, Ps. (Economics); Gerald J. Elfenhein, of Norristown, Pa. (Chemistry), Daniel M. Fendel, of New York City (Mathematics); Anthony B. Kahn, of Man chester, N.H. (History and Literature); Edward B. Kellogg, of Groton (History and Literature); Nell J. King, of Woodmere, N.Y. (History); Henry A. Lester, of Teaneck, N.J. (Chemistry and Physics); Robert H. Rodgers, of New Haven, Vermont (Classics); William H. Smock, of Ithaca, N.Y. (English); Richard S. Stein, of Lincolnwood, Ill. (Social Relations); Robert S. Stern, of Springfield (Economics); Robert...
...German judges and seven women; Federal Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is one of the teachers. Each student pays $80, but the Salzburg Corporation estimates that it spends some $500 on each student, gets the difference from the Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Commonwealth and Avalon Foundations, plus private U.S. corporations and individual donors. Some 45 lectures are jammed into each four weeks, followed by afternoon talkfests in which the lectures are expanded or shredded. A main attraction is a 15,000-volume library of Americana...