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Three Grades. Dr. Seliger puts drinkers into three categories: moderate social drinkers, heavy social drinkers, and alcoholics. The social drinker, he says, "can stop drinking at will . . . [Even at parties he] usually stops short of actually getting drunk to the extent of not knowing what he is doing. [He does not get] involved in real jams, fights with strangers, police...
...triumphant train ride from Boston to Cleveland, Veeck, normally a careful drinker, broke a rule and got tipsy enough to start squirting champagne at his players. They grabbed bottles and began squirting back. When one woman got her dress spoiled Veeck ordered: "Buy her a new $250 one." After 20 cases of champagne and ten cases of bubble ink were gone, he took a look at his wine-soaked ballplayers and ordered new suits for them all. "Greatest guy in the world," everybody said...
...initial difficulty attendant to this problem is finding a good definition of the term "whole man." Is he the "complete Rabelaisian man" to whom Aldous Huxley refers: "great eater, deep drinker, stout fighter, prodigious lover, clear thinker, creator of beauty, seeker of truth and prophet of heroic grandeurs?" To know whether or not Harvard trains "whole men" it is necessary to know what such men are and it will be difficult to arrive at any definition which will not either outrage the convictions of a segment of the student body or else be so abstract as to be meaningless. Furthermore...
Last week, the Harvard School of Public Health, which in 1929 developed the Drinker respirator (iron lung) for victims of spinal polio, announced that a device based on Dr. Sarnoff's theory is now helping to save the lives of victims of bulbar polio...
Nevertheless, the voters went right on liking prohibition anyhow. The state's church-going United Drys (many of whom fasted and prayed for victory at the polls) were fiercely proud of living in a prohibition state.* So, naturally, were the bootleggers. And many an Oklahoma drinker liked prohibition too-there was plenty of good liquor, prices were reasonable, and instead of going out to buy a bottle he could have one delivered promptly to his door. Last week, by a margin of 55,400 votes, Oklahomans of all persuasions decided once more that prohibition was just too good...