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...difficult. Withdrawal from drug use is a painful process, and many are tempted to quit before completing the ordeal. The sacrifices are numerous. One resident regards his shaved head as a sign of "sincerity to the program." Another speaks of sessions, often several days, spent in the school boiler room, where residents "go voluntarily to think their problems through." "Certainly the discipline is here, but it is just one part of teaching these people how to confront their problems. We do not advocate a soft approach to drug therapy," says McCue...
PRESIDENTIAL ANECDOTES by Paul F. Boiler Jr.; Oxford; 410 pages...
...every legal right to be stiffs. A goodly number of them have been. This unavoidable fact makes Presidential Anecdotes a rather remote relation to The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (1975), which roamed freely and often hilariously over centuries' worth of British biography and gossip. Historian Paul F. Boiler Jr. had to confine himself to the 39 Americans who, for better or worse, served among the acknowledged legislators of the world. Abraham Lincoln is here, but so, unavoidably, are James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore...
...material that Boiler has culled is fascinating even when the Presidents are not. Fillmore may have gone down in history as a nonentity, but it is rather touching to learn that he anticipated, and agreed with, this verdict. In 1855 he declined an honorary degree from Oxford University. He seemed eager to avoid the disdain that Oxford students heaped on outsiders: "They would probably ask, 'Who's Fillmore? What's he done...
...debtor in London. He was rescued by an American named Joseph Harrison, a manufacturer of locomotives, who paid off Catlin's creditors in exchange for his Indian paintings and artifacts. Harrison shipped the collection back to Philadelphia, where it was stowed in the basement of his boiler factory for 27 years. Catlin spent ten of those years in a small apartment in Brussels, living as a recluse and trying to recoup his fortunes with new trips to South America and to the Indian country west of the Rockies...