The Saturday Evening Post articles from September 1996

The Saturday Evening Post archives from September 1996

Giving our daily bread some new twists. (homemade bread)(includes recipes)
September 1, 1996... Homemade bread is now a luxury that everyone can enjoy. The automatic bread maker is a home baker's dream come true. Just pop some ingredients into one of these little miracle machines, push a button, and a few hours later you have a golden...

TV anchor Anne Ryder in Calcutta with Mother Teresa.
September 1, 1996... The resounding success of Anne Ryder's "Hope to Tell" series surprised colleagues, refuting the popular network notion that viewers prefer violent programming over positive profiles of good works. For TV anchor people in any large metropolitan...

America's Dumbest Criminals.
September 1, 1996... America loves cops-and-robbers stories. Each year brings yet another batch of Hollywood releases, featuring sophisticated burglars and clever con artists. But what about the unscripted variety of everyday criminal? Are they as clever as their...

Give me rhetoric! (political speaking)
September 1, 1996... My wife touched my shoulder. "Wake up! You've snored through the last ten minutes of the convention." "I wasn't snoring," I said. "I was helping Patrick Henry write a speech." "Sure you were." "Really," I said. "He was writing on a pad....

Joan Lunden: 46, fit and feisty. (television personality)
September 1, 1996... If you doubt the value of healthy eating, feast your eyes on the svelte cohost of "GMA," then sample her recipes for success. Fans of "Good Morning America" have seen less of Joan Lunden since she made good on her vow to lose 50 pounds by her...

Fred Meijer: minding the megastore. (supermarket mogul)
September 1, 1996... He's not your average millionaire-cum-chain-store-mogul in a three-piece suit, but "just Fred"--a regular guy with 101 superstores across the Midwest. It all started 62 years ago when Hendrik Meijer, a barber in Greenville, Michigan, couldn't...

Safe under the sun. (melanoma prevention)(includes interview with dermatologist Antoinette Hood)
September 1, 1996... The tragedy of young people dying from malignant melanoma galvanized an entire nation into action to fight the world's highest rate of skin cancer. What can we learn from Australia's success? Twenty-eight-year-old Mark Marcelis was a typical...

The prince and the pauper. (short story)
September 1, 1996... In the city of London, on an autumn day in the 16th century, a boy was born to a poor family named Canty, who did not want him. On the same day, another English child was born to a rich family named Tudor. All England wanted Edward Tudor, Prince...

When the dog bites. (dog bite prevention)
September 1, 1996... Helpful hints from the Dog Bite Prevention people and how they came too late for this door-to-door salesman. Does anyone out there know the dates of this year's National Dog Bite Prevention Week? I fear it may already be history, as last year...

Automania. (Saturday Evening Post covers)
September 1, 1996... Driving back through Post covers to the days when 15 miles per hour turned hubby into a speed demon, and a woman applying makeup had to resort to a fender mirror. In what year, would you speculate, did Charles and J. Frank Duryea first begin...

Is your drinking water safe?
September 1, 1996... Attention to the quality of your drinking water could protect your health. When 100,000 Milwaukee residents were struck with the same flu-like symptoms, public-health officials scrambled to find the cause. The culprit was cryptosporidium, a...

What to do when strep strikes. (strep throat)
September 1, 1996... While most sore throats are caused by viral colds or flu, strep throat is a bacterial infection that, left untreated, can lead to serious health consequences. Parents know all too well that "back to school" also means "back to the doctor" with...

Giving credit to our clergy. (Clergy Appreciation Day)
September 1, 1996... Something extraordinary is happening on October 13 in places of worship around the country. In 1992, layman Jerry Frear, Jr., was brainstorming with church colleagues about how they might be of help to their ministers when he glanced at a...