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Head Pounding. The North Carolina team, led by Psychiatrist John Ewing, gave laboratory cocktails of ginger ale and ethyl alcohol, measuring the amount of alcohol so that each subject drank an amount proportionate to his body weight. The volunteers were then questioned and tested for two hours to gauge the effect of the cocktail. The tests revealed a striking difference. After drinking, the Westerners tended to feel relaxed, confident, alert and happy; the Orientals were more likely to experience muscle weakness, pounding in the head, dizziness and anxiety...
ALSO: Folk singer Mike Seeger plays Kirkland House Sunday, sponsored by the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston...Every Monday saxophonist and all-around reed-player John Payne stirs up some fine jazz at the Oxford Ale House. Payne almost stole the show two Springs ago from Bonnie Raitt and Peter Johnson in a Sanders Theater free concert. He's one of the great sidemen on Raitt's Give It Up album...
...loudspeakers while a multinational collection of American, West German, British and Japanese machines turn out 6,000,000 zippers a month. The machines whir under the usually watchful eyes of long-haired young men who are paid $66.25 a week and, as one of them puts it, "all the ale we can sink." All men employees wear Y.K.K.'s jackets, which have the company initials proudly displayed on the breast pocket and no fewer than six zippers on the front, the pockets and the cuffs...
...under stands that Maugham did create several stories that are still read and several characters who are fondly remembered. Most memorable by far is Rosie, she of the pale gold hair, white breasts and happy promiscuity, whose enchanting smile suffuses Maugham's celebrated roman à clef, Cakes and Ale...
Calder's Appendix A is entitled "Rosie," and it identifies for the first time the original of the heroine. Maugham always built his most interesting characters on real people. The publication of Cakes and Ale in 1933 touched off not one but a series of literary scandals, starting with the charge that Rosie's writer husband was a caricature of Thomas Hardy. A convincing original for Rosie herself has never been proposed, though it has been argued-once to Maugham's face-that Rosie had to be the one total fiction in the book because the author...