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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...
...Russia's world record-holding high juniper Valeri Brumel, 23, in a Moscow hospital with a double fracture of the right knee suffered when his motorcycle skidded on a Moscow street; Comic Art Carney, 47, resting in a Hartford (Conn.) sanitarium after what his manager called "nervous tension, depression and a lot of things I won't go into" forced him to abandon his role in Broadway's The Odd Couple; TV Actress (Peyton Place) Dorothy Malone, 35, mending in Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after a dangerous seven-hour operation to remove massive blood...
...well be the next Premier of India." With the approach of old age-Levant will be 59 this year-the wit yields to the neurotic basket case. The reader is endlessly treated to clinical accounts, some written by his long-suffering wife June, of Levant in one or another sanitarium, of his bouts with drug addiction or liquor. From all this, Levant comes out as a man who might have been but just missed, who wallows in that unhappy fate by parading as an object of derision. The effect is painful, like a Levant joke: "Ralph Edwards had wanted...
...Cultural Minister, a few others. She is almost never seen in a nightclub, only rarely at Paris parties. Instead she retreats to the country house she bought last March in the wooded hills above the Riviera, a secluded, rustic mansion which she has artfully converted into a kind of sanitarium for all that ails her and her friends. She cooks with imagination and flourish, inspects the yield of her chestnut trees, walks in her woods with her German shepherd dog. "I have begun to find serenity in the last few years," she says. "My life used to be in very...
...Physicists opens with a corpse stretched out on the stage, and the play promptly follows suit. The setting is a sanitarium for the insane, but the chief delusion of the evening is harbored by Swiss Playwright Friedrich Duerrenmatt (The Visit), who plainly believes that he is a deep thinker. He dispenses fat, fuzzy thoughts on atomic scientists, moral responsibility, and the apocalyptic menace of the bomb as if he were imparting profound revelations rather than portentous bromides...