Pounds Lighter, She Gets to Eat Again--Mrs. Elaine Johnson, the 39-year-old Culver City, Calif. housewife who has been fasting for 117 days, is served her breakfast at Wadsworth Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles today--a pair of hardboiled eggs. Mrs. Vera Brown of the hospital staff does the serving. Mrs. Johnson lost 136 of her 315 pounds during the fast, which ended on Friday when she had her first meal since Jan. 28. It consisted of a spoonful of cottage cheese and about a quarter of a cup of eggnog. "I couldn't eat it all--it was too much," Mrs. Johnson told newsmen.

Associated Press · [ca. May 1963]

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