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...church-going Catholic, O'Neill is a moderate social drinker who plays golf for recreation, contentedly shooting in the upper 90s. Instead of joining a fashionable suburban country club, O'Neill slips away to a public course, pays his $ 1.60 and waits for a threesome to come along that needs a fourth...
...most significant result of the study was the destruction of the myth that alcoholic liver damage is the result of a bad diet rather than booze. All of the animals who were kept on the drinker's diet for anywhere from nine months to four years developed some form of alcoholic liver damage. Seven of the baboons developed fatty livers, and four contracted alcoholic hepatitis. Two animals, kept on the bottle for four years, developed cirrhosis, the progressive and severe hardening and contraction of the liver...
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...