Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxers and Socialists. It was a Red dead sea full of poor fish dreaming of a bookless future. The biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick of capitalism but leery of canned meat. "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach," Crusader Sinclair sadly acknowledged. But The Jungle...
...After Yale had refused to guarantee him a steady diet of such dishes as sunflower seeds and carrot juice, Australia's Olympic Swimming Champ Murray Rose, 18, a resolute vegetarian, decided to sample higher education elsewhere, perhaps at the University of Southern California. "At U.S.C. they are willing to feed me whatever I want," explained Rose...
Died. Viscount Cherwell (The Rt. Hon. Frederick Alexander Lindemann), 71, Oxford Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting"), "The Prof" devised a paper solution to the problem of tailspin during World War I, learned to fly in three weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain...
Died. Walter Gieseking, 60, bald, hulking amateur butterfly collector and strict vegetarian who ranked with the world's best pianists; after surgery for pancreatitis; in London. He became known to post-World War I audiences for his subtlety, grace and color, rather than for flashing technique, rose to greatness as an interpreter of Debussy and Ravel, played gladly for German audiences during the Nazi reign, was greeted by jeering pickets on his first postwar tour of the U.S., returned to Germany without playing, later toured in the U.S. successfully...
...Older Worker: The U.S. Must Make Better Use of Him" see TIME, Oct. 19, 1953.-ED. Sir: Gerontologist Cowdry's warning, "Don't fall for that old vegetarian routine; it'll kill you!" may be sound, but comes too late to save me. I am 76, blood pressure 120/80, never felt better and I have only eaten meat twice since...