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...ambassador to Brazil. But as an undergraduate, Gordon spent his time with the Glee Club. It was the tail end of Prohibition, so Gordon explains the Glee Club’s parties usually featured just wine, not hard liquor. “People wouldn’t get raucously drunk,” he says, “but they’d get comfortable. They would definitely sing dirtier songs than normal...
...does not always practice them. He works obsessively but just as easily becomes a raucous, tobacco-chewing, beer-swigging good ole boy. A yachtsman who defended the America's Cup in 1977 and won the title Captain Outrageous, Turner showed up at a victory press conference roaring drunk and tugging at a bottle of aquavit. During a conference on arms control in Atlanta early this month, Turner dined with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. When the conversation began to bore Turner, he produced a tiny TV from his pocket, set the device on the table...
Boxing right now is punch-drunk legends, venal managers, scheming promoters, calloused writers, hopeless under-cards, injured preliminary boys, several champions per myriad division and one middleweight monster. Also, lately, hectoring medical associations and posturing legislators. Watching a fight like last week's in both horror and appreciation, finding equal wonder in savagery and science, one is amazed and a little ashamed that there has always been a class poor enough for this uncivilized business, this simplest sport or this purest art. What can you call it? Jake LaMotta, still married, called it "the best three rounds of fighting...
...proposes to his cousin Eleanor, who comes from an even weirder branch of the family. Her father Elliott, younger brother of President Theodore Roosevelt, was afflicted by alcoholism and drug addiction. Her mother's brother, Vallie Hall, liked to get drunk and fire his shotgun out the window...
...agree with the author that the administration could learn a lot from HRSFA—Harvard students need unique orginzations with interesting activities, not more generic social activities where getting drunk is mistaken for having...