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...Union Now: besides his American schooling and travels he has an American wife (and five little Anglo-Americans). During the war, to open another, pocket-sized window on the U.S. to Britons, he also edited a monthly mag-azine, Transatlantic. He is a nonsmoker, heavy eater, and a Chablis drinker...
...complained one bartender, "people forget what is the prime purpose of a bar, which is to drink." He had three solutions for that: 1) "An extra employee to rove through the crowd and remind people that their drink is getting low"; 2) "Fill the first row with fast Scotch drinkers, and push them slow beers to the back. However, that is too ideal to be practical, because you would be offending a beer drinker who could easily develop into something better"; 3) "Raise prices during television hours; most places...
...course of it, Winant does more to re-establish the reputation of Franklin Roosevelt than all the fevered praise of the writers of their recollections of him, and to recall him as he seemed then-not the toast-drinker of Yalta, or the self-righteous social reformer, but the determined advocate of aid to a Great Britain that was fighting for its life...
...Raphaelle Peale, one of the two best U.S. still-life painters, was almost neurotically strict. He was born into a painting family in 1774; his father and uncle were both artists, and his brother Rembrandt won lasting fame as a portrait painter. Peale, who became a heavy drinker, was ill most of his sober hours, and Author Born thinks that this may have helped him as a painter. Sickness, he reasons, "may become a constructive element in so far as it forces the artist to be more direct, more concise and more economical in his style...
...father has been running my farm, coming to the farm in the morning and returning to his home in Hot Springs in the evening. For years he has been an excessively heavy drinker. When he drank, like many men, he underwent a change in character. Lately he has been drinking more and more. Drinking caused him to become irrational, abusive and violent...