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Clean Liver. At 52, Seattle's first citizen neither looks nor lives like most of the sportswriting clan. To them he is a queer, aloof fish who never works in shirtsleeves, never smokes, drinks or swears. But he goes with the boys who do, and sometimes, on out-of-town trips, writes their stuff for them when they get plastered. Six days a week he eyes the sports field once over lightly, knocks out a chatty, chummy column called the Morning After. At the small Dunlap Baptist Church, in a rundown part of town, Brougham teaches a Sunday school...
...association is the more formal of the alumni organizations, concerning itself with the election of Overseers and alumni officers, as well as with the planning of Commencement and Class Day exercises. Harvard's Commencements are more than merely the awarding of degrees. The ceremony is the gathering of the clan from all parts of the world complete with fifth, tenth and twenty-fifth reunions, the regular meeting of the Alumni Association and all the workings of an integral part of the Harvard picture. More than half of the men who graduate at any commencement can be expected...
Most secret of the secret groups, perhaps, are the Followers of Hogan, of whom little is known. Some say their patron saint is a common domestic animal, maybe even a cat. Be that as it may the clan, though it rarely convenes, is summoned with the immortal words: "The Followers of Hogan will meet at Hogan's Grave at midnight tonight. Hogan would want it that...
Ancestors & Integrity. To Charles Francis Adams, banker, yachtsman, ex-Secretary of the Navy and the reigning patriarch of the Adams clan, these reminders of the past were not so much landmarks as part & parcel of daily life. Like J. P. Marquand's George Apley, he was neither insensible to change, nor intolerant of it. But nothing had ever moved him to abandon the manners & morals of his New England ancestors-who include two Presidents (John and John Quincy), a famous ambassador (Charles Francis I), authors (Henry and Brooks), bankers, lawyers and scholars...
...Harlows, and witches, Salem-style perchance, swish about by broommobile. So 'tis meet that Macbeth's witches come down Cambridge way. Three eerie figures meet in the middle of the Harvard camp . . . egad again? Yard. Zounds! 'Tis Kopp, Margarita and Jacunski, magicians all, of the Crimson Clan, meet to devise a potent potion not to the liking of McLaughry...