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...stop is to stop." But, said Cameron, he did not consider the Hammond-Horne theory entirely proved (neither do they). He added: "Personally, I believe that a life of outward productiveness and inward serenity is more important than how long life is." There were other skeptics. "If this were spinach instead of cigarettes, I think people would be easier to convince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Cancer (Contd.) | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...SPINACH. Acts on your stomach like a broom. Never forget to repeat M. Prudhomme's famous remark: "I don't like it and am glad of it, because if I liked it I would eat it--and I can't stand it." (Some people will find this sensible enough and won't laugh...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: Satire And Sympathy: Flaubert | 4/29/1954 | See Source »

...bottles and whisky bottles everywhere, and the windows were all blown off in storms and these strange cats would come in." On the play's opening night, storm-blown Carson "was so scared and so worked up I couldn't go, so I stayed home and ate spinach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Lone Star capital of Austin. They were even more startled by some of the tall tales Texans told until they realized that it was just gasconnade (as Frenchmen call the braggadocio of their own "Texans" of Gascony). In Crystal City, Texas, the world's self-styled spinach capital, the Gossets found a statue of Popeye in the public square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: California, Me Voil | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

Pass That Old-Fashioned Spinach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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