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

[Nicole Chase-Iverson, Rome]

Could this be related to Mark Twain's famous quote concerning censorship? 
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have steak just because a baby can't chew it?" 
(or something along those lines).  

Nicole Chase-Iverson, MS/LIS
Reference and Information Services
Jervis Public Library
613 N. Washington St.
Rome, NY 13440-4296
315.336.4570  ext. 233
nciverson at midyork.org


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Hilary Caws-Elwitt <sctylibrary at stny.rr.com>
Reply-To: list at project-wombat.org
Date:  Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:05:45 -0400

>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!
>-- 
>--
>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
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