Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supposed to be the final Olympic tryout for 129 U.S. marathoners. But the man who won the 26-mi. 385-yd., up-&-downhill race was Gerry Cote, a 34-year-old policeman from St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. To celebrate his fourth B.A.A. triumph, jaunty Gerry gulped a bottle of beer and lit up a fat stogie. The Olympic marathon committee picked its three-man U.S. team from marathoners who had finished from 250 yards to 350 yards behind Canada's Cote...
...illustrate his Portrait of Picasso, Sabartés used the four portraits Picasso had painted of him. The first one, dated 1901 and titled The Glass of Beer, had been just as shocking to turn-of-the-century tastes (Sabartés had found its color "shrieking" at first) as the final version-showing Sabartés as a dizzily distorted clown-seems in midcentury...
...beer-can battle, started when some Princeton students let fly on the Johns Hopkins band at a recent lacrosse game, has led President Harold W. Dodds to declare a ban on all public drinking by Princetonians for an unspecified time...
Absent from the Great Critics sessions was the sage of Baltimore, Critic H. L. Mencken. But over a beer, Mencken peppered the visitors with a shakerful of critical opinions. Sample: "The thing about Theodore Dreiser always was his enormous unintelligence. He reached heights of unintelligence as great as any of the heights of intelligence that Aristotle achieved...
Seems that Gold and his friend John R. Hutchison, Jr. '47 were bot to the tune of $15 that they couldn't drink seven quarts for beer in seven hours. Only condition of the "sporting preposition" was that the brew would have to stay down until all seven quarts were consumed...