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Manhattan's buoyant Symon Gould, vice presidential candidate of the Vegetarian Party (TIME, March 22), last week dispatched an open letter to Britain's eminent austeritarian and anti-meat man, Sir Stafford Cripps. Wrote Gould...
...John Maxwell, 85, presidential nominee of the Vegetarian Party, set up headquarters in New York City, counted (he said) on getting 3,000,000 votes. One difficulty was that Dr. Maxwell was born in England. "Of course, we don't expect to be elected," said Vegetarian Vice Presidential Nominee Symon Gould...
...evening, if he has no urgent meeting, he dines at home with Isobel. Their menu: carrots or other raw vegetables, black bread, fruit. Ever since he drove for the Red Cross in France during World War I, Cripps has been bothered by intestinal trouble. In 1935 he became a vegetarian. Cripps and Isobel eat no cooked foods, except for an occasional boiled potato...
...Manhattan last week, 500 delegates to a convention of the American Naturopathic Association formed the American Vegetarian Party and nominated a 1948 presidential candidate. Their man: Dr. John Maxwell, 84, Jove-bearded, pint-sized proprietor of a Chicago vegetarian restaurant, who says he has tasted no meat for 45 years. He hoped to get some 5,000,000 votes; 3,000,000 from vegetarians, the rest from "prohibitionists, anti-vivisectionists, anti-cigaret groups and other people of similar high moral principle...
...from the sublime to the ridiculous. Tolstoy, for example (a child of nature whose animal passions filled his novels with "rich streams of ... creative primeval lustiness and health"), fought his passions until he believed he had converted himself from a lecherous, iconoclastic youth into an apostolic, vegetarian writer of Christian tracts ("I am ashamed to speak of my disgusting body," he said). But a rabbit had only to jump up under his feet to make him let out a hunter's bloodthirsty yell. One evening, out of sheer exuberance of animal spirits, the "elderly prophet" sprang onto his father...