Frank Rand

Frank Rand enters the quotation record exactly once: as a St. Louis man grimly lunching on bouillon cubes and undressed lettuce “in the interest of his girth,” whose one-line complaint Alexander Woollcott repeated on the air in September 1933. Quote Investigator credits him with the saying on the strength of that broadcast report — the earliest known instance of it — while noting that Woollcott, not Rand, is the reason the world heard it. Nothing further about him is documented in the sources that trace this line.