Marie Curie and Her Daughters by Shelley Emling

Author:Shelley Emling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Since Marie’s last visit to America, Meloney had been one busy lady. In 1926, The Delineator magazine had merged with another Butterick Publishing Company publication, The Designer, with Meloney continuing at the helm. In her new role, she won kudos for instigating a major conference on food habits sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture and held in April 1926 in Washington, D.C. The large-scale affair came about after Meloney’s Delineator uncovered and then brought to light the complete lack of any official standards for assessing the weight of adults in the United States save for US Army charts formulated after the Civil War. Meloney enlisted the help of Dr. Samuel Brown, president of the New York Academy of Medicine, who agreed to co-organize the event with an eye toward developing a weight table similar to that in use for children. The thinking was that such a table, based on weight, height, and age, could help thwart the era’s unhealthy trend of being fashionably and unnaturally slim. Afterwards, Meloney was named editor of the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune, a paper that boasted writers such as Dorothy Thompson and was the forerunner to New York magazine.

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