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William Griffith Wilson grew up in a quarry town in Vermont. When he was 10, his hard-drinking father headed for Canada, and his mother moved to Boston, leaving the sickly child with her parents. As a soldier, and then as a businessman, Wilson drank to alleviate his depressions and to celebrate his Wall Street success. Married in 1918, he and Lois toured the country on a motorcycle and appeared to be a prosperous, promising young couple. By 1933, however, they were living on charity in her parents' house on Clinton Street in Brooklyn, N.Y. Wilson had become an unemployable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL W. : The Healer | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...poll taken by the Class of '74's 25th Reunion Committee, 26 percent of respondents said that, during college, they consumed alcohol either "quite a bit" or "too much." Including those that drank "occasionally" for social reasons, the number jumps to 92 percent...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Students' Lives | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...poll taken by the Class of 1974's 25th Reunion Committee, 26 percent of respondents said that, during college, they consumed alcohol either "quite a bit" or "too much." Including those that drank "occasionally" for social reasons, the number jumps to 92 percent...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women Look for Niche, Final Clubs Grow More Diverse | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...Number of ales, rums and whiskeys Reed drank that night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: May 17, 1999 | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

BOTTOMS UP Here's a reason to belly up to the bar. A German study shows that moderate amounts of alcohol (one or two drinks daily) can kill off H. pylori, bacteria that scientists think cause stomach ulcers. Wine seems to do the job best; those who drank it reduced their odds of an H. pylori infection 42%. For beer drinkers, the risk was reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Apr. 26, 1999 | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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