Off the Beeton Track
FTER hearing "Early Ramblings in Nutrition" on a recent Friday I am prepared, in this case at least, to withdraw my previous statement that A.C.E, talks are dull. This one developed a new angle on a familiar subject. In neither manner nor matter did it ramble -it gave/a succinct and entertaining account of the somewhat haphazard development of what is now the science of nutrition, beginning with the Romans,’ for whom A, B, C, and D meant merely Aulus, Balbus, Caius and Decius, and coming down to Sir John Boyd Orr, who now learns his ABC down to the letter P. And whereas previous A.C.E. talks have sounded like readings from Cranford, long in cold storage, this particular one was delivered with the pride and despatch of a housewife turning out her last batch of scones. And so lost was the speaker to all sense of the academic that she even managed to put a lilt into that familiar last line, "This talk was prepared and issued... ." and made it sound like a Noel Coward curtain instead of an epitaph.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 387, 22 November 1946, Page 10
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184Off the Beeton Track New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 387, 22 November 1946, Page 10
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