The Saturday Evening Post back issues from March 1991:
Boning up: whether you are young or old, a diet rich in calcium can help strengthen your defenses against osteoporosis. (includes recipes)
Mar 01, 1991; ... BONING UP There's no question that calcium is absolutely necessary in building and maintaining a good, solid bone mass--or what I call "tough bones." Unfortunately, the average person consumes far less calcium than needed in his or her daily diet. How much calcium do ...
Pet peeves. (pet behavior problems)
Mar 01, 1991; ... PET PEEVES Behavior problems kill more pets every year than diseases or accidents. Thousands of dogs and cats that drive their owners crazy are abandoned to die slow, cruel deaths or are taken to animal shelters. The tragedy is that almost 100 percent of pet behavior problems are ...
New ways to cut cholesterol. (includes recipes and related article on rice bran products)
Mar 01, 1991 ... NEW WAYS TO CUT CHOLESTEROL For a while, it seemed like consumers couldn't get enough oat bran. But the new news is: There's more than one way to lower your blood cholestrol. Besides oat bran, psyllium and rice bran are two other healthful fibers to add to your ...
Fighting back against bone loss: an aerobics pioneer says strength training can help in the fight against osteoporosis.
Mar 01, 1991; ... FIGHTING BACK AGAINST BONE LOSS The importance of regular aerobic exercise is well-known and well-documented. Weight reduction, improved cardiovascular performance, improved lung function, and an overall increase in phyical and emotional well-being are jsut a few of the many ...
Remembrance of things to come. (poem)
Mar 01, 1991; ... REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME What am I doing, daughter mine? A-haying while the sun doth shine; Gathering rosebuds while I may, Reveling in the brief sensation Of basking in your admiration. Oh, now, when you are almost five, I am the lordliest man alive; Your gaze is blind to any flaw, And ...
Fitness she wrote. (author's fitness routine; includes recipes)
Mar 01, 1991; ... FITNESS SHE WROTE I knew it was time for a change when I saw myself on that video. It was the moment of truth. Something "clicked" in my head, and I made the decision to get the extra weight off. I didn't have to lose an ounce to be professionally successful. The producers were ...
The rocky road to popularity: pride not only goeth before a fall, but in the craft of television news it also becomes an occupational hazard. (excerpt from 'A Life on the Road')
Mar 01, 1991; ... THE ROCKY ROAD TO POPULARITY IN THE EARLY DAYS, before "On The Road" became a familiar part of the Evening News, nobody knew who we were. People would see us shooting film by the roadside and ask what was going on. Once, thinking we might somehow make a story of some farm kids ...
Lent: the slow fast. (short story)
Mar 01, 1991; ... Lent: The Slow Fast The phone rang Easter morning. Ten o'clock. Jo Ellen was lying in bed beside Chris. The children, old enough not to believe in the Easter bunny and young enough to be oblivious to the spurious relationship between chocolate and pimples, had grabbed their ...
My love affair with dandelion: the author finds that the common weed can be a healthful delicacy. (includes recipe)
Mar 01, 1991; ... MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH DANDELION It must have begun in my childhood as the Great Depression helped to shape our menus. Salads in winter months usually were limited to coleslaw or chilled canned tomatoes. Perhaps we bought lettuce for special occasions. By February we were more ...
Mr. Lincoln's mystery cake. (short story)
Mar 01, 1991; ... MR. LINCOLN'S MYSTERY CAKE Grandfather and his famous cake passed into memory on the same day. The old man knew that his hour had come and that was why he had my mother call in a professional photographer to take pictures of the cake for the family records. Then, when the ...
Hernia and hisnia: he took the swelling to be an overdeveloped muscle, but was scared into an operation by his dear wife's admonition of 'a stitch in time....'
Mar 01, 1991; ... HERNIA AND HISNIA It couldn't have happened from lifting pages of copy; my writing isn't that heavy. Nor do I use a big word (usually because I don't know one) when a little word will do. To tell you the truth (which will be a switch, according to you-know-who), I took this ...
Stevan Dohanos: cover to cover. (magazine illustrator )
Mar 01, 1991 ... STEVAN DOHANOS: COVER TO COVER Of all the unlikely places for a Hungarian-born American teenager to begin his career as an artist and magazine cover illustrator, an Ohio steel mill would seem to top the list. But it was here that Stevan Dohanos serendipitously discovered a talent ...
Hooked on decoys. (collecting fish decoys)
Mar 01, 1991; ... HOOKED ON DECOYS Sixty years ago, when the ravages of the Great Depression erased jobs, emptied cupboards, and made winter even more cruel, the fish decoy suddenly became a vital tool for many upper Midwesterners. They relied on these flashy hookless lures to attract fish so that ...
Walking for health. (80 Years Ago in the Post)(Saturday Evening Post)
Mar 01, 1991; ... WALKING FOR HEALTH Walking is one of the commonest acts of life and, consequently, is considered by many persons as unimportant and almost devoid of beneficial results. This is an erroneous supposition, as a brisk, vigorous walk in the open air is one of the best forms of ...
Encore for Mozart: Austria's hills are alive with the sound of music as Vienna and Salzburg remember the wonder boy. (article concludes on page 108)
Mar 01, 1991; ... ENCORE FOR MOZART "You know that I am immersed in music, that I am busy with it all day--speculating, studying, considering," Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his father. Throughout 1991, the two Austrian cities in which Mozart's music is rooted will immerse themselves in Mozart's ...
For the birds. (Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary and Salvador Dali Museum in Florida; includes related article on Busch Gardens)
Mar 01, 1991; ... For the Birds Florida is officially known as the Everglade State. Its 280 or more days of sunshine each year, however, give it 280 or more reasons for competing with New Mexico and South Dakota for the nickname of Sunshine State. Poll the annual influx of visitors who "come on ...
Alexander Botts, firebug. (short story)(part 2)
Mar 01, 1991; ... Alexander Botts, Firebug Dog River Motel Dog River, Vermont Wednesday, October 1, 1985 DEAR HENDERSON: By great good fortune, your highly critical letter of last Monday has reached me after I have had several days to recover from the somewhat disturbing events of last Saturday at Chandler ...