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

[Sue Kamm]

This sounds to me like John D. Rockefeller (Senior).  A Google search on his name brought up the Rokefeller Archive Center.  Here's the url:  http://archive.rockefeller.edu/

The reason I thought it was JDR:  I seem to recall that towards the end of his life he could eat only baby food.  YMMV.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Hilary Caws-Elwitt <sctylibrary at stny.rr.com>
>Sent: Oct 11, 2006 2:05 PM
>To: list at project-wombat.org
>Subject: [PW]  ? Last-ditch source question: baby food/steak
>
>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
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>Susquehanna County Library, 2 Monument Sq, Montrose PA 18801
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