Word: manne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1800s the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and his sisters Catherine and Harriet sermonized against bread made from bleached flour. "What had been the staff of life for countless ages," said Beecher, "had become a weak crutch." Bad morals went with a bad diet, according to Mrs. Horace Mann, who in 1861 published her cookbook Christianity in the Kitchen. A fruitful wedding of faith, faddism and free enterprise was not long in coming. As early as 1866, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, manager of a Battle Creek sanatorium, was prescribing generous doses of bran, which he claimed "does not irritate. It titillates...
State authorities are pleased with the performance of the boxes, which require little maintenance and are virtually vandal proof. Also, says John Mann of the Illinois Department of Transportation, "the call boxes get help without a lot of talking." This is particularly important because motorists in trouble are often nervous and disconcerted and may give a wrong location when phoning for help...
...ransom certificates but that the authorities suppressed evidence supporting Hauptmann's alibi that he was at work as a carpenter throughout the day of the kidnaping. Once the spectacular trial was under way, Scaduto says, a number of witnesses distorted the evidence "for their own peculiar motives." Haupt-mann's widow Anna, now 78, added a melancholy judgment of her own: "I know my Richard couldn't do such a thing...
...leaving Indianapolis for the bright studio lights of Chicago's WMAQ-TV-did not do too badly. Money, she insisted, was "irrelevant. I don't think I've been in this business long enough to worry about money." Not everyone believed that, least of all Ralph Mann, the sharp-penciled lawyer she hired from International Creative Management to represent her in negotiations with...
Rabbi Isaac Mann, Monday, 7:30 pm, 1 Bryant Street...