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...life began with his usual Saturday-morning tennis game. He left the central Paris apartment where he lived alone to join his close friend Claude Garrec at the courts. The men played from 10 until 11, then stopped at the Pelican bar in Paris' 1st arrondissement. There Paul drank only Coca-Cola. That didn't surprise Garrec, who knew his best friend to enjoy the occasional wine or pastis (a French liqueur flavored with aniseed that is about as potent as whiskey). At 12:30 Paul said his farewells, telling Garrec that he had to meet Diana and Dodi...
...gender, Paul was a regular customer. The burly 41-year-old bachelor, a former French air-force officer and an amateur pilot, was a big teddy bear who brought flowers for the bar's regulars but otherwise left them alone. Josie, the bartender, knew him well. "He never drank much," she says, leaning on the bar under a garish mural of nude women. "I've known him for 20 years. He was a nice guy, gentle. He'd drink Coke, Perrier, maybe a beer." Josie emphatically denies Paul was an alcoholic and says he appeared perfectly normal that night...
...often forget that Socrates was more than a philosopher. He was also an honored warrior and a prolific drinker. It is said that when he drank with his friends, Socrates would stand like a stone as they passed by the way. That is to say, he would drink them under the table without ever faltering himself. An impressive feat, to be sure...
This is not to say that he was an alcoholic. Socrates surely drank in moderation-of the times he drank and of the amount he drank. Moderation seems to escape us today in so many respects, but especially in drinking. Among the youthful, drinking appears as a question of extremes: one is either a teetotaler or a sloppy drunk...
...auto accident that ended his own dreams of gridiron glory--and, after majoring in English at the University of Southern California, eventually became a charming monster of self-indulgence. Women, beginning with his mother, lined up to mother him. He had two wives and physically abused them both. He drank incessantly: "There are people who knew him for years and never, to their knowledge, saw him sober." Insofar as such behavior can be redeemed, Exley did so through his writing skill and his sense of humor, which was usually aimed at his munificent failings. As a person he was largely...