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...Henry Ford's two basic ideas on eating are 1) never to satisfy his hunger completely at any one meal; 2) never to eat sugar (because he believes sugar crystals get in people's blood streams and cause infections). He takes a healthy, if restrained, interest in such substantial items as roast beef, lamb and pork chops, baked potatoes, butter, cream. His present enthusiasm for wheat is more industrial than dietary, like his onetime predictions that roads would some day be paved with coffee beans, and automobiles be made, in part at least, from cantaloupes...
They were totally uninterested in its money-making possibilities. The result is an unprecedented reversal of publishing practice. The 69? edition of The Beards' Basic History which was published last week (150,000 copies in the first printing) was the book's first appear ance. Next month a more expensive edition will be distributed as a Book-of-the-Month Club dividend. After that Doubleday Doran will publish an illustrated edition at $3.50. For the first time in book history, the drugstore buyers come first...
...their 69?, they will get no mere rehash of the earlier Beard histories. The Basic History has its own fresh organization (especially noteworthy are chapters on "A Broadening and Deepening Sense of Civilization," "Centralization of Economy," and "Gates of Old Opportunities Closing"), its own fresh feats of condensation without loss of striking detail...
Those who read the Beards' Basic History not for the basic history but for the Beards will find in it the historians' mature comment on a U.S. liberalism which often claims them as forebears. With a conspicuous lack of enthusiasm they write about a U.S. foreign policy based on "shadowy plans for a world order and for enforcing the four freedoms throughout the world." With half-concealed asperity they dismiss the notion that the New Deal represented a fundamental attack on poverty. They make a partial defense of Whipping Boy Herbert Hoover. Write the Beards: "President Hoover accepted...
Druge, like many another Westerner, believes that there exists a vast conspiracy in the East to keep the West Coast an undernourished industrial stepchild. The onset of World War II gave the West basic industries on a scale that it never had before, notably steel and aluminum. Then Westerners began to dream that the West was finally going to grow up industrially. But as the end of the war draws near with no definite plans announced to utilize fully those industries, many a Westerner has grown bitter and disillusioned. Last week Druge summed up that disillusionment and, in so doing...