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...Gerber got to brooding about the time his wife spent in the kitchen chopping and straining vegetables for their two young children. Since his family ran a small canning plant at Fremont, Mich., Gerber decided to try straining and canning baby foods. The first products (peas, prunes, spinach, carrots, vegetable soup) were a success, both with the children and with Gerber's wife. He felt sure that other mothers would like them too, but he had to find retail outlets...
Cloutier took the chin spinach championship, growing a black, semi-bushy van dyke...
Woman's lot these days is not a happy one, White says, and her education is to blame. Her colleges, founded during the first flush of feminism, were modeled after men's, and the belief persisted that "higher education is something like spinach which can profitably be absorbed without reference to the gender of the absorbent...
Flash of a Knife. In 1943 when he began designing the first postwar Studebaker, Loewy decided that current cars were too bulky, too laden with chromium "spinach and schmalz," and had too many blind spots for the driver. What he wanted was slimness, grace and better visibility. To his staff he mapped the grand strategy: "Weight is the enemy . . . Whatever saves weight saves cost. The car must look fast, whether in motion or stationary. I want it to look as if it were leaping forward; I want 'built-in' motion ... If it looks 'stopped...
...himself "the life of a vegetable": up at 6, breakfast, drive to the courthouse with one of his bodyguards (he was closely guarded throughout the trial), work over law books until time for court, lunch in his chambers on spinach and one lamb chop (never any variation), nap for half an hour, back to court, back to his chambers for an hour's more work, thence to the Crystal Health Club for a workout, shower and massage, home at 7:15 for two Martinis apiece for wife Ethel and himself, dinner...