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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live on $4 or $5 a week, remember good times when they had $12. They own a 1924 Dodge but can't afford to run it. Years ago, discouraged by debts and annual babies, John started drinking "like a hog in a bucket of slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage, John was sobered. "God knows, Sarah," he said, "I love the brats but I'm worried about how to look atter them." Next time he took to drink, Sarah "suddenly took a notion that I could beat the stuffin...
Full of interesting detail, the biography notes that all the Goodman kids drank coffee as soon as they were weaned. Milk cost too much for a Chicago garment-worker's family. Goodman recalls that he first met the late great Trumpeter Beiderbecke on Aug. 8, 1923, because that was the day the youngest Goodman, Jerome, was born. The first band under Goodman's direction was a pickup combination that he took to Cannon Club for a 1929 Princeton house party. His first national publicity, on the occasion of his 1935 Sunday concert, while playing in Chicago, is attributed...
...straw that broke John Harvard's back was when Saradjeff, as a final gesture of despair, threw an epileptic fit in the Lowell House Common Room. He was sent down to Stillman where he decided that Professor Coolidge and his flock had poisoned him. As an antidote, he drank a bottle of ink. At this point, Lowell House threw in the rag and persuaded Saradjeff to return to his native land...
...originally Austrian (the village of his birth was obliterated by the World War), a warrant for his deportation which had been issued in August 1934 became effective as of January 1937. Joe hired a lawyer to appeal his case in U. S. Circuit Court at St. Louis. That lawyer drank up his expense money and filed no appeal, so Joe was taken to New Orleans to be deported. But Joe's Hot Springs lawyer, one C. Alpheus Stanfield, whose lucrative practice in Arkansas's easy-divorce courts enables him to take "radical" cases for fun, followed...
...Strong Man" Conrad T. Budny '40 is Harvard's champion all-time, all-American milk swilier. Interviewed in his Kirkland House room yesterday, he confessed, "I seldom drink less than seven glasses of milk per meal. As long as I can remember I always drank a lot of milk--even before I was weaned. I started young and never broke the habit...