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...first female ever to win the Harvard Band Drinking Contest," Johnson laughs proudly. "There is this annual party after the Brown game where all the freshmen drink 'Brown Punch' which is made of bourbon and apple cider. I must've had about 20 cuts of that stuff--I beat out some 200-pound hick from Missouri, too," she adds...
Roosevelt's penchant for experimenting guided his chief measure for industrial revival, the National Industrial Recovery Act, and his choice of the man he put in command of it, General Hugh ("Ironpants") Johnson. A profane and red-faced ex-cavalryman, an admirer of Mussolini and good bourbon, West Pointer Johnson had spent the war years spurring the Selective Service System and applying the whip to the War Industries Board, which supervised the manufacturing and sale of military supplies...
...facelifting-and the hope it has kindled-may not be permanent. Pontiac is entitled to better times, and perhaps the Super Bowl will help. But in case not, better make that a double bourbon...
...snow job, however, may be on Pontiac. The 2,000 members of the press will stay in suburban Dearborn, 30 miles from the dome and Bourbon Street North; concerts by Frank Sinatra, Motor City-born Diana Ross and Rocker Rod Stewart in the pregame week are to be held in downtown Detroit; 1,200 buses will cart fans from outlying locations to and quickly from the game. Even the teams will not stay in Pontiac; both are quartered in other suburbs...
...could no longer comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history, had broken down for Bell--time became irrelevant to the text of events that...