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...kept recycling his material; the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet, was the third film based on that book in ten years. Hammett had always shown a streak of to-hell-with-it independence, and success made him increasingly reckless. He partied and drank too much, offended studio heads and publishers with his disregard for deadlines. He ran up huge bills that he declined...
Three years ago, 30 idealistic Harvard undergraduates met once a week for a semester to draft a constitution for a new student government. When they were done, the "constitutional coventioneers"--as they called themselves--uncorked bottles of champagne and drank toasts to "a new era of student power at Harvard." That era never arrived...
Fowler has both won and lost with Martin (except in 1976, when Yankee-General Manager Gabe Paul wouldn't hire him: "He said I drank too much and then went out and hired Bob Lemon," Fowler said, "Do you believe that?") and says he has never had any problems. "I think he's the greatest, he's been loyal and never lied to me. The players love him because they know he'll be on their side a hundred per cent. He just loves the game, and it just kills him when he loses...
Afterwards, the teams feasted together at a banquet, and with the kind of ceremony that properly surrounds storybook competition, drank toasts to the rulers of each other's countries...
...disease were slightly increased in the case of cigarette smokers. But researchers were surprised to find a notable rise in pancreatic cancer among coffee drinkers. Compared with its occurrence in patients who did not drink coffee at all, the disease was two times as frequent among people who drank one or two cups a day and three times as frequent among those drinking three or more cups. What ingredient of coffee might account for the higher risk is a mystery. Caffeine itself seems to be exonerated because heavy tea drinkers showed no higher incidence of cancer...