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Oliver Wendell Holmes, late, great Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1902-1932) offered some advice to all youngsters in a letter which was recalled in the Atlantic last week by his biographer, Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus). The letter was written when the Justice was old, alone and with "no one to call him by his first name," to students who wanted to celebrate his goth birthday: "On the eighth of March, 1862 . . . the sloop Cumberland was sunk by the Merrimac, off Newport News. The vessel went down with her flag flying-and when a little later...
Yankee from Olympus, by Catherine Drinker Bowen, a biography of Chief Justice Holmes, remained on the list of popular books all year by virtue of the wisdom, the knowledge of law, the humor and the span of American history embodied in its hero...
...interested in your article on "Help for Drunkards" in TIME (Oct. 23). The article does not make clear the fact that an alcoholic cannot be cured-that is, get over his alcoholism, so that he can ever drink normally again. At a certain stage in his drinking career, a drinker passes his tolerance point -that is, he passes from a condition in which he can tolerate alcohol to a condition in which he absolutely cannot tolerate it. After that, one drink will start him off on a drunk. However, his alcoholism can be arrested ... so that an alcoholic can live...
...Alcoholics Anonymous definition of an alcoholic: "A person to whom alcohol is a problem in any department of his life and who is unable to stop drinking." A chronic alcoholic: a person "who has been harmed either physically or mentally through alcohol." An excessive drinker: "A potential alcoholic...
...Ashore he met a satin-cheeked Chinese girl, who murmured: "You will comfort me. . . ." When William woke up his money was gone-as was the girl and the Royal Navy. Fearful of being charged with desertion, William fled to New Zealand, soon became a successful pioneer and a heavy drinker...