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...recent dinner dance at a newly dedicated Al-Anon Club, a woman was heard to remark that it was not she but her husband who had been the problem drinker. She herself had never tasted alcohol in all her life. "Oh, what a shame," replied a veteran boozer sadly. "Then you'll never know how good it feels to recover...
Self-sacrificing? Praiseworthy? Not as Son Elliott sees it. His mother was a poor housekeeper, he reports, and did not feed the children as well as Granny Sara did. Girl and woman, she was a dissembler. She let on that her father was simply a boozer, failing to mention that he also had a brain tumor. To ingratiate herself with the bigoted Sara, she feigned anti-Semitic notions. Much later, as a columnist, she had the nerve to "picture herself as a calm, contented woman," rather than as the "detached, harried, faultfinding wife and parent we knew." To Daughter Anna...
Born. To Emerson Boozer, 29, hard-charging halfback of the New York Jets and leading touchdown scorer in the N.F.L. this season (13 in the first nine games), and Enez Boozer, 30; their first child, a daughter; in Huntington, Long Island. Name: Keva...
...season's opener against the underdog Buffalo Bills, a team that almost always plays its best against New York, Namath ran a carefully modulated game, passing only 14 times as he set up his running attack. Joe Willie did manage one touchdown strike to Halfback Emerson Boozer as the Jets won, 41-24. Then came the Baltimore Colts -now rivals of the Jets in the Eastern Division of the N.F.L.'s American Conference-who had beaten the Jets four times since the dramatic Super Bowl confrontation. Playing for the first time in Baltimore's cavernous Memorial Stadium...
Aided by a John Riggins-Emerson Boozer running back combination that netted four touchdownes and 318 yards, the New York Jets rolled to a, 41-43, victory over the New England Patriots yesterday in Foxboro. However, Beantown fans can take consolation in the Bruins, 8-4, win over the Penguins...