[PW] ? Last-ditch source question: baby food/steak

[Hilary Caws-Elwitt]

Hello all,

I'm trying this as court of last call for a question that's been languishing in 
our new statewide reference service queue for more than a month. If wombats 
can't find the answer, I'm going to close it!

Patron asked "Who was the rich man that could only eat baby food but wished he 
could have a steak?" On reference interview added "It may have been a quote from 
the last days of this person which was really about the moral of being or 
wanting to be rich. I think it was a famous person, like the founder of Ford or 
K-Mart or someone like that within the last century of so."

The original librarian said "I have tried everything I could think of, plus put 
the rest of my department on this, and none of us have been able to come up with 
anything. Keywords that we've tried have included millionaire, millionaires, 
rich man, robber baron, baby food, pablum and porridge. As well as an excursion 
into millionaires with bad and/or poor digestion. I've tried our print quotation 
books, quotation databases, and parables."

I'm not holding my breath, but if one of you knows or can find the answer, it 
would be pretty exciting!
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Hilary Caws-Elwitt, Systems & Public Services Librarian
Community Information Network Administrator/Programmer
Susquehanna County Library, 2 Monument Sq, Montrose PA 18801
Phone 570-278-1881 -- Fax 570-278-9336
info at susqcolibrary.org -- http://www.susqcolibrary.org
info at susquehannaCIN.net -- http://www.susquehannaCIN.net