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...York Evening Graphic (better known as the "porno-Graphic") had slipped from his aging grasp long ago. But for 50 years, Health Cultist Macfadden has remained as devoted to New Physical Culture, his first & last magazine, as he is to buttermilk, raw carrots and cottage cheese salad. Deep in the red, the gaudy bimonthly has done little to deserve his affection. More than 250,000 readers have paid $60 a set for Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Health and Physical Culture, an eight-volume guide to diet, disease and happy sex relations. Only 88,000-by his own count...
...thin crowd, a summer-night buzz of fans interrupted by an occasional drink being shaken at the small bar. It is dark in here . . . Fans in the prayer for cool salvation. From the next booth drifts the conversation of radio executives; from the green salad comes the little taste of garlic. Behind me . . . a young intellectual is trying to persuade a girl to come live with him and he his love. She has her guard up, but he is extremely reasonable, careful not to overplay his hand . . . In the mirror over the bar I can see the ritual...
...born of a long diet of salad and love . . . The fact that [my parents] had not married before a mayor or priest did not bother them...
...eating man will be disturbed by Reynolds' words. He will no doubt sample his salad more pensively next time he eats in Adams. His eye will run quickly, nervously over the meat, the potatoes, the milk. He will search his soul...
...menus in a one week stay included three meals with macaroni as a main attraction, a meal made up of potato chips and an inedible salad, and meat loaf which tasted as if someone had misread the recipes on the back of a Corn Flakes box. Orange juice was always canned, and stewed fruits, and canned spice foods, not what one gives to a convalescing patient, made up the diet. Meat, with the exception of Sunday dinner, was poor and rarely present, while the fish on Friday had, better not be described in print...