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...Cultureman must have a carefully selected library including several rather seedy books, "picked up in a tiny bookstall on the Seine." He should be able to talk convincingly about his experiences in far-off and exotic lands; he need not, of course, have done any traveling at all. James Astor, who hailed from somewhere in Illinois, built himself quite a promising reputation by painstaking research in travel books without ever having seen the sea, much less traveled. He was sweeping all before him in his senior year when disaster struck one day. He was telling a rapt circle about...
...Astor: That was my first trip...in '33. I returned in '38 and of course went straight back to see dear old Madame Champlain at "Le Coq Rouge...
...Astor (unsuspecting): Why yes. I remember especially because there was an absolutely gorgeous vintage that year. Madame Champlain was in ecstasies...
...Astor (trapped): Died...'36...of course, of course...But I was speaking of the younger Madame Champlain. Marvelous how these family traditions go on. Still at the same old "Coq" as we used to call it affectionately...
...Astor left college immediately. It is rumored that he became a traveling salesman operating out of Peoria...