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...there is no acquired aversion." Besides these odd chips of information, Dr. Chandler's book (The Eater's Digest, Farrar & Rinehart; $2.75) is packed with practical discussions on such things as digestion, nutritional diseases, bellyaches, diet during pregnancy, ravenous children, vitamins (if you don't like spinach, don't eat it, but be sure to buy your vitamins in the drugstore...
...would shun it, just as the pleasant fir woods of Germany are known as the Black Forest, the abode of witches and evil spirits. But, being in Texas, it is irrigated, scraped over, dug into with an energetic, hopeful, optimistic curiosity. As a result the land produces oil, grapefruit, spinach, oranges, carrots, cantaloupes, tomatoes, turkeys, cattle, and is proudly called by the natives the garden spot of the universe...
Since then over 600 commercial products have borne his name, including dolls, jewelry, fountain pens, wallpaper, soap, and 90 cinema shorts have featured him. For three years Segar's sailor, who derives his prodigious strength from spinach, advertised Wheatena, then Popsicles, on the air. In 1935 Popeye paid Artist Segar $100,000 a year...
...Four top-notch publishers- Schirmer, Presser, Fischer, Church-snap up her output, which is steady. Songs & snatches come to her at the piano, in her garden in Miami, where she spends seven months a year, or at her dining table. Soon to be published is another Mana-Zucca work: Spinach and 'Leven Other Funny Children's Songs. Said Mana-Zucca last week: "I'm a great believer in putting humor in music...
Many a modern psychiatrist believes that trying to make a left-handed child write with his right is a crime only less heinous than making him eat spinach. Their theory: switching hands upsets a child emotionally, often causes stuttering. Last week a graduate student at Syracuse University threw doubt on this theory. Prompted by Professor Harry J. Heltman, chairman of Syracuse's School of Speech, Graduate Student Elizabeth Daniels had examined 1,594 Syracuse freshmen, learned that...