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...been more than an optical necessity, more than a symbol of a political and social heritage, like the monocle of Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 15). It is a trademark, a talisman, the badge of an intelligence which views humanity with graceful hauteur and interprets it with charm. A vegetarian, because it hurts his conscience to eat anything he might have patted, Cinemactor Arliss wears high shoes, likes slang, has never driven an automobile, hopes some day to be knighted...
...military junta of twelve officers, the oldest of whom is 42, the youngest 18, took over the government, inaugurated Vice President General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez as Chief of State. General Martinez, a model General, is not only an officer: he is a vegetarian, a temperance advocate, an authority on agricultural reform. Even so the U. S. State Department refused to recognize him last week. Within 48 hours after the revolution the only visible signs were gaping holes in the Presidential Palace and the fact that cautious motorists traveled about the streets with flags of truce on their radiators...
Girls & Vegetables. An observation: Vegetarian co-eds at the University of Colorado have more efficient digestive apparatus than their meat-eating school mates.?Dr. Glen Raymond Wakeham of Boulder...
...Many vagaries of diet are advised by food faddists which run from nothing but grapes to almost nothing but oranges? through purely vegetarian, largely meat, fat-poor, salt-poor, vitamin-rich, sugar-poor, carbohydrate-rich, only milk and largely nut diets?with the expectancy that soon someone will exploit a blubber diet. . . . All these dietary regimens seem to succeed in ratio to the psychological influence of the adviser and the psychopathic complex of the advisee." He advised merely eating less ordinary foods and being satisfied with a pound a week loss of weight...
...Indians living on the shores of Williams and Okanagan Lakes have reported the appearance of a large lake-serpent. Not so quick-eyed, white men did not discover it until four years ago. Those who know describe the animal as being a gentle monster 30 ft. long, with harmless vegetarian habits. It has the peaceful face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog. It propels its long brownish-green body through the water by four flippers, occasionally rearing its great head like a gigantic water snake. Most northwestern newsmen decline to believe in its existence but admit that...