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...born in 1905) tasted no solid food until he was almost a year old. Nowadays U.S. mothers generally give their babies cereal within three months. To Miami's Dr. Sackett, a general practitioner, this is far too late; babies under his care have a spoon of thin oatmeal or barley when they are but two days old. At ten days vegetables are added; at 14 days, strained meats; at 17 days, strained fruits; at weekly intervals thereafter, orange juice, eggs, soups, mashed banana, custard puddings and "crisp bacon" (though the bacon has to be mashed with a fork...
...John in the kids' bathroom got stopped up. Everybody had to use Mommy's and Daddy's. This is like rerouting rush-hour traffic over a goat path." Baby Ned had developed diaper rash, Melina was running a slight temperature. Sally would not eat her oatmeal, and it had looked like rain; so the wash had to be hung in the garage. Admitted the columnist: "My efficiency rating took a nose dive. I failed to get dinner started. I got the kids to bed fifteen minutes late...
...clapped into jail at Christmastime when a prankster friend left a stolen sheet in his hotel room. Baldwin describes in chilling detail the glacial speed of French due process of law, the dank, verminous cells, the human derelicts ("faces the color of lead and the consistency of oatmeal''), and the laughter of the French court which released him, "the laughter of those who consider themselves to be at a safe remove from all the wretched, for whom the pain of the living is not real." Moving on to a tiny Swiss village high in the Alps, he found...
...goes to bed late and rises late. Usually he prepares his own breakfast-an unappetizing bowl of strained oatmeal and a glass of milk which, he hopes, are good for his ulcer-and eats in the white-walled living room decorated with two portraits of his tall, attractive wife and a Renoir landscape that Ed gave Sylvia this year for their 25th wedding anniversary. Then he lights the first of the day's many cigarettes and is ready for the phone calls that his secretaries, Carmine Santullo and Jean Bombard, have been holding at bay all morning. When...
Hagerty (continuing the bulletin): He enjoyed a breakfast of prunes, oatmeal, soft-boiled egg (singular), toast and milk...