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This section and other parts of the book thus correct much popular misinformation and prejudice, but as one Harvard man stated, "It tells us all about the average college drinker; yet I've been in Cambridge four years and haven't seen an average...
...appearing neighbor at the next table might be checking on his drinking. By law, the restaurant could serve a woman precisely 5 centiliters (1.7 oz.) of hard liquor, or a man 7.5 centiliters, up to 3 p.m.. and double that amount after. If a friendly waiter brought the drinker an outsize tot. the snooper would not say a word, but at home that night would send off a report signed with his code number. A few days later, the unsuspecting waiter would be reprimanded or sacked. The board, employed ten such male spies, paid each $300 annually, plus allowances...
...soldier had been raised in a city slum. His father never worked steadily. His mother was a hard drinker and openly went about with other men. Their son grew up to be a sensitive, belligerent child who lived by his wits. He once missed school for 21 days because he had no shoes to wear...
...British nation has actually eaten 400,000 tons more meat, including red meat, than they did in the last two years of the Socialist administration." And with that, Sir Winston Churchill rinsed out his mouth with, of all things, a glass of cold water. Grimacing like the champion brandy drinker that he is, he looked up at the audience apologetically. "I don't often do that," was all he needed to say to set the great hall bellowing with laughter...
...conventional standards, Kemal Ataturk was hardly an admirable character. He was a bitter, sullen and ruthless man, a two-fisted drinker and a rake given to shameless debauch. Politically, though he proclaimed a Bill of Rights, he flouted it constantly; though he talked of loyalty, he hanged his closest friends. He was devoid of sentiment and incapable of love, unfaithful to everyone and every cause he adopted save one-Turkey. But before he died, his driven, grateful people thrust on him the last and greatest of his five names: Ataturk, Father of All the Turks...