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

[Winters, Murl]

I made a Google.com search using +"john d. Rockefeller" +diet and found
on p.25 of A Review of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by
Ron Chernow; reviewed by Michael Lee, Journal of Business Leadership -
2000-2001 http://www.anbhf.org/pdf/lee.pdf the following:
"His work with the University of Chicago was so stressful that
Rockefeller experienced a near nervous breakdown. Over a twenty year
period he donated more than thirty-five million dollars ending with a
farewell gift in 1910. He experienced tremendous digestive problems and
adopted a very stringent diet in his life from this time forward."

Nothing is said here about baby food (only "a very stringent diet) but
the dates near this part of the text would place this in the first
decade or so of the 20th century and might focus your searching in
biographies of him.

Murl Winters
Assistant Library Director
Evangel University
Springfield, MO 65802

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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
Phone 570-278-1881 -- Fax 570-278-9336
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