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...popular, "common sense" notion that well-fed people are most likely to keep healthy is not necessarily true. Recent research shows that the common diseases of childhood are no more prevalent among poorly fed children than among children stuffed with spinach, fruit and fish-oil vitamins. Research also shows that well-fed adults suffer as much as anyone else from the common cold and influenza...
...local landscapists whose work changes not a whit from year to year: Dean Fausett (TIME, Aug. 22) and Luigi Lucioni. Their crisp, slick pictures of red barns, cows, birches and green pastures were echoed with varying success from wall to wall, making an exhibition steeped in milk and spinach, the way the customers liked it. (The exhibiting artists sold $10,000 worth of pictures at last year's show, might do as well this time...
Hardly a day after Abbott's announcements, shortages appeared and prices spurted. Overnight, cars were up as much as $500. In Montreal, spinach jumped from 12? a lb. to 28?, green beans from 30? to 43?, lettuce from 16? to 29?, electric toasters from $12.50 to $15.63, refrigerators from $350 to $437. The spurt brought back price ceilings this week on processed foods...
Diamond Dust. Fashion Is Spinach, wrote Designer Elizabeth Hawes (in 1938) in a maverick mood. But to the fashion magazines the sand in he spinach is diamond dust. Last year, Vogue and Harper's made more money than ever (for Conde Nast Publications and Hearst, respectively). Their circulations (Harper's, 225,000, plus 39,000 British; Vogue, 304,000, plus 100,700 British and 12,000 French) are at an alltime peak. Recent issues have been skinnier than last year's ad-fat ones, and to cut costs Vogue recently cut its output from 24 issues...
...Spinach v. Gin. Americans who wonder what existentialism is about will find a simplified translation in the comic strip Popeye, whose "I am what I am!" is existentialism stripped of its dialectical jargon. Like Popeye, the hero of The Age of Reason keeps low company, often talks in unprintable expletives, believes supremely in his own powers of action. But Popeye grows strong on spinach; Sartre's characters in The Age of Reason feed on a pasty mixture of atheism and bad gin. The diet symbolizes existentialism's greatest weakness: the futility of attempting moral regeneration through a philosophy...