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Switching careers is an old habit with Sell, who never finished Culver Military Academy but has succeeded at almost everything else he ever tried. He has been glove salesman, reporter, interior decorator, nightclub promoter and vitamin manufacturer. He turned out a slogan ("Have you been taking your vitamins?") that helped make vitamins big business, and wrote a book on home furnishings that sold 100,000 copies. He wears the Legion of Honor for promoting French fashions...
...wouldn't have had us all done. I couldn't have afforded it. If we had paid, it would have cost us nearly ?16. Me and the children have all been examined, and the doctor's given me vitamin pills, and ordered two of the children to have specs, and sent another to have exercises for her spine, and I wouldn't have known there was anything wrong with any of us till...
Like most successful coaches, Adolph Rupp is a painstaking worrier. Although he has recently written a book, Championship Basketball (Prentice-Hall; $3) cautioning against overworking players, he works his own hard. He feeds them vitamin pills, keeps weight charts, advocates squeezing a small rubber ball to develop arm and finger muscles. "There are no secrets in the game," he says with a straight face...
Then the Foxes built up the thinned-down Rupert with oats, alfalfa, linseed and soybean meal, vitamin D, wheat germ oil, etc. Rupert seemed in tiptop condition, but he still sired no calves...
...Glad Acres went $38,000 plus $3,000 for transportation and other costs. Saddened but not discouraged, Turner sent Rupert to Kansas State College, where he got the full treatment of modern veterinarian vitalizing. After seven months, Rupert returned to his home ranch, full of penicillin, assorted hormones and vitamin C. But he was still sterile...