Word: spartanism
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...financial troubles, William took the cure at Battle Creek, Mich. There Dr. John Harvey Kellogg sold him on 1) a vegetarian diet, 2) the evils of drinking water at mealtime, 3) the evils of tobacco at any time. William tried to sell Childs customers on a similar Spartan bill of fare. General sales resistance finally roused hungry Childs stockholders to push him out of the company in 1929. Nine years later (in 1938) he died on his New Jersey estate...
...held for two and a half years, blunt Ben Lear gave his estimate of the young men the U.S. has sent him for training: essentially all right, but badly brought up. In a speech prepared for Army Day this week, General Lear gave civilian America an insight into the Spartan philosophy he has sought to instill. He also handed out a soldier's estimate of the old U.S. way of life...
Giraud's Present. In North Africa Giraud holds labored French-English telephone conversations with Eisenhower, whom he considers "a fine man." He hates desk work, bats around whenever possible in a U.S. twin-motored bomber. He runs himself on a Spartan 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. schedule, last week treated himself to a trip to the Tunisian front...
Last week the Spartan old soldier stayed up beyond his usual prompt bedtime: 10 p.m. Not until the clocks in his colonnaded, white-walled Moorish home in Algiers pointed to 11:30 did General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of North Africa, lay down his pen. He had carefully studied a memorandum from the Fighting French. Just as carefully the General had studied out his answer. There were some points on which he and General Charles de Gaulle of the Fighting French were in agreement. On others-well, wise men move slowly...
Behind Gretchen Merrill's victory were seven years of hard work. A perfectionist, emulating the career of her childhood heroine and present tutor, nine-time national champion Maribel Vinson, Miss Merrill has led a Spartan life during skating seasons. She goes to bed at 7 o'clock so she can be up at 6:30 for practice before school; diets on steak, spinach and milk to keep herself in shape. Her free-skating routines she maps out on paper and tries out at home in her stocking feet, taking her split jumps over a sofa...