They Walk in Glory

"The lame, the halt and the blind have created a fascinating chapter in world history. Julius Caesar was an epileptic. Beethoven was deaf. So was Thomas Edison. The immortal poet, John Milton was blind, and Lord Byron had a clubfoot. When Admiral Nelson won his greatest naval victory at Trafalgar, he had only one arm. Yes, many great men and women have come from the ranks of the handicapped. In the sports world, too, many great champions were physical cripples." 

A Help-Your-Self-Booklet, 1959

Baseball Fans' Guide for 1954

"There is, of course, no substitute for taking yourself out to the ballpark when you want to see a ball game. However, the living-room fan who follows his favorite team by television has certain advantages even over the on-the-scene observer. The telescopic lenses of the cameras bring TV fans on top of the key action at home plate. There's no vantage point in the ballpark that gives a comparable view of this focal spot." 

C.H. Pearson, 1954

A Sportsman's Guide to Safety

"The scene is one of fun and high spirits as a group of young-in-heart men engage in an impromptu game of touch football on a bright Saturday afternoon in September. Laughter and good-natured shouting ring out in the crisp, afternoon air. Suddenly-a shrill cry-"Someone's hurt!" And this day that began with good fun and healthful sport ends in needless, meaningless tragedy." 

A Help-Your-Self-Booklet, 1960

Be a Better Bowler

'

If you want to be a good bowler, get your own ball and get one that's right for you. That's one secret of expert bowling, a secret often overlooked. If you flit from a ball with a two-finger grip to one with a three-finger grip, from a heavy one to a light one, you'll never get a good average. Your delivery, to achieve high scores, must be always the same; it must have smoothness and coordination. And, after all, coordination is the thing you must strive for." 

Sterling Publishing Co., 1951

How to Add Pins to Your Bowling Score

"Certain bowling ailments are common to thousands of men and women who have not mastered the fundamentals of the game. Better bowlers, too, suddenly go off form without realizing why. Generally speaking, there are remedies for these bowling ills, just as there are for most maladies, provided we give them time, patience, and attention." 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1959

You Can't Win

"Charlie hit it lucky yesterday," someone remarks, and the word spreads from bench to bench at the plant or from desk to desk at the office. Charlie may have picked a winner in the "numbers" or his long-shot horse came in at the track. Whatever it was, the gambling virus takes hold again among the men and women who work with him and spreads like a contagious disease." 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1957

Exercise is for Horses

"Consider the tortise and the hare, you exercise worshipers. The tortise just loafs his way through life, and has probably never been inside a gymnasium. The hare, on the other hand, is a bounder from away back, who sees no reason to walk when he can. His ife is a long round of nip-ups. Turtles have been known to live more than a hundred and fifty years (tops in the animal kingdom), and some people claim they live a lot longer. How many old rabbits do you know? Does this mean that exercise is bad for you? Now, now, let's not jump to conclusions. Let's not do any jumping at all, in fact - there are many other forms of exercise which are much safer, especially if you're over forty." 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1955

Eat Your Own Vegetables

"Home-grown food tastes better, it is infintely fresher, and often it costs less to grow than that from the corner store or roadside stand. And there is always the extra "windfall profit" of a happy family working together in a common cause. Money isn't everything and you don't find juvenile delinquents in a family of gardeners." 

Good Reading Rack Service, no date

Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables

"When you can fruit and vegetables you heat them hot enough and long enough to destroy spoilage organisms. This heating (or processing) also stops the action of enzymes. Processing is done in either a boiling-water-bath canner or a steam-pressure canner. The kind of canner that should be used depends on the kind of food."

Good Reading Rack Service, 1958 

Money $aving Meals

"What shall we have for dinner? That's an easy question for you to answer after you have decided on the main dish. The main dish is especially important in meal planning. It is the hub around which the rest of the meal is built, and often it carries a large proportion of the cost of the meal. Usually the main dish is the main source of protein - so essential to building and repairing body tissues."

Good Reading Rack Service, 1959 

Cheers for Chubby

"Chubby started out in life as a roly-poly little fellow…with a hearty appetite. As he grew, so did his food needs….Chubby didn't notice it at first until his suits began to shrink. And Mrs. Chubby found they were making dresses in much smaller sizes than they used to...Chubby tried exercise...which was kind of dangerous. What Chubby didn't know what that actually he'd have to run 36 miles to take off a single pound of fat. Mrs. Chubby tried massage and an electric exercising machine. But that didn't seem to work, either."

Good Reading Rack Service, no date 

Low Calorie Meals

"Isn't she a healthy specimen?" I can still hear my mother's voice tinged with pride in the accomplishment of having stuffed me so well that at the age of seven I weighed ninety-nine pounds….I had heard talk among my friends of calorie diets. True, I had paid scant attention to any such distasteful discussion. Now, I mused, it might be possible to plan a diet which could incorporate my ideas of good cooking to a degree, and which wouldn't contain one grapefruit section." 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1954

Good Nutrition is Good Sense

"Nature is the biggest manufacturer of all nutrients. Only nature can combine the energy from the sun with elements from the air and soil and water to provide all of the foods we need for health. Each has certain special jobs to do in the building, upkeep and operation of the body: the services of one essential nutrient cannot be done by any other nutrient, but several nutrients can work together to perform some services for the body that no one nutrient can do alone." 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1958

All About Meat

"Probably the most difficult of our food shopping problems is to buy good-tasting, tender meat at a reasonable price, for it's not easy to tell differences in quality when you see the meat in the retailer's case. Because in most of our homes meat for a meal is generally chosen first, and the rest of the menu then built around it, it is especially important that we know what to look for when buying." 

Frigidaire Division, 1951