Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upon returning home from the hospital after a four-hour, unsuccessful operation, Gonzales spent most of his time in bed and complaining of pain in his back. He kept his children away from him for fear they would bump him and increase his pain; he became a heavy drinker and made three attempts at suicide. Because of his emotional anguish, Gonzales was unable to accept drug treatment for a testicular cancer discovered three years after the operation. As a result, doctors say, he now has only a 10% chance of surviving three years...
Died. Catherine Drinker Bowen, 76, stately, spirited patrician who found a large audience as the author of well-researched, fictionalized biographies of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Yankee from Olympus), Sir Edward Coke (The Lion and the Throne) and John Adams (John Adams and the American Revolution); of cancer; in Haverford...
...manage a major league baseball team. "Any 12-year-old," he writes, "knows that all [owners] do is play musical chairs with a bunch of anonymous mediocrities as managers...there are certain preeminent qualifications to managing a major-league baseball club: You must be white and either a heavy drinker or a cardplayer...
...could have been a tensely structured autobiographical novel, and probably would have been, had not Berryman jumped to his death last year. He was an author of protean energies, focused on but not limited to poetry. He was himself very nearly as renowned as "Alan Severance, the nationally famous drinker," whom LIFE magazine photographs "holding forth to rapt pals in an Irish pub." Severance's polar positions are rebellion and awe. "Both seemed built in, he was ready to defend both to the death. You had to have both. He saw damned little of either in most Americans...
Jack's is for the sort of noisy drinker who likes crowds so tight that his neighbor can feel his stomach gurgle. A Harvard alum runs the place--hopefully the fact that the place is jammed does not come out of any cultivation of the connection, be it conscious or unconscious. Rugby shirts are standard wear, and George Kimball, The Boston Phoenix's Gonzo sportswriter, loves the place. The Club Zircon (298 Beacon St.) has live rock--as well as Jack's--but a cover charge to boot...