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Confessions of lost innocence are frequent. Writes Book Critic Lewis Gannett ('13): "I was the pure young man from a Western New York minister's home, who had never smoked more than a corn-silk cigarette, and tried to hold the freshman beer night ... to ginger ale. One learned." Artist Waldo Peirce ('07) admits that "Leavitt & Peirce was probably one of the reasons it took me five years to get a degree, though the B in A.B. didn't stand for billiards...
...Lions are the friendliest people." enthused Harvey ("They call me Cookie") Cook to his wife Harriett as they sipped bourbon and ginger ale in Chicago's Sherman Hotel last week. "Everybody has a name tag on him. You look and see the name and you greet him, say, 'How ya doin!' " Cook's extra big "Keep Smiling" button flashed gaily from his purple and gold vest; the 51-year-old utilities company employee from Beechview, Pa. considered how glad he was to be there, he and Harriett, hitting it off just great with 35,000 friendly...
...coffee-house was full of wholesome types sipping ginger ale and looking at each other in off-beat anxiety. Portia passed on, swinging her book bag. Her soul trembled; but, of course, imperceptibly...
...London party to launch a charity benefit for an actors-sponsored orphanage, Sir Laurence Olivier showed up with the ginger-tinted beard and undipped hair he let grow for his film version of Macbeth. His role: at the "Night of 100 Stars" revue July 24, Sir Laurence (in top hat, white tie and tails), with wife Vivien Leigh and Cinemactor John Mills, will trip onstage for a buck and wing...
Novelist Donleavy himself seems to have some such intention for his picaresque ranting hero and leaves him with a vision of the world running to nothing, like horses on a wintry road at night, and a prayer: "God's mercy/On the wild/ Ginger Man." But before this end is reached, the reader, surfeited on Joyce and ginger ale, may well want to conclude on a new version of Mrs. Bloom's last word to the reader of Ulysses: "No and I said...