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...asked his name, he invariably doubles up his fists, juts out his jaw and growls "Angel, wanna make somethin' of it?" Raul speaks perfect American, smokes big cigars and worries about his diminutive wife's health. To keep her strength up, he feeds her a pint of oatmeal every morning and insists that she take One-A-Day vitamin pills twice...
...Battle Creek Sanitarium; after long illness; in Battle Creek, Mich. Kellogg, whose white mustache and goatee made him look like an otter-shaped Buffalo Bill, was the son of Seventh Day Adventists. He took over their church's hydrotherapeutic institution at Battle Creek in 1876. Bored by oatmeal, in 1895 he boiled and rolled wheat, pronounced the flakes fine, in 1906 he sold his $250,000 interest in their manufacture to his brother, famed Will Keith ("Corn Flakes") Kellogg. John Harvey Kellogg and his childless wife brought up 40-odd foster children, inspired his onetime patient W. C. Post...
...With the Oatmeal...
...open Brookdale Cafeteria, where each customer's check has an IMPORTANT NOTICE: "You may pay what you wish or dine free unless delighted." Hunger has always horrified him since boyhood days when, with his Salvation Army parents, he lived in China and saw gaunt Chinese devouring an oatmeal poultice his father had put on an old man's carbuncle...
Next to steam (which old wind jamming navy men welcomed like a mouse in the morning oatmeal) the biggest thing that has happened to fighting-ship design is the airplane. Before the epochal crippling of the Bismarck by aerial torpedo, and the crashing success of unsupported aircraft in sinking the Prince of Wales and Repulse, designers of battlewagons and smaller craft had given only half an eye to defense against the new weapon on the seas. Those demonstrations ended all arguments, basically altered ship design...