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...quintessential, slightly hoarse upper-class Manhattan honk, Tom Wolfe once theorized in New York magazine, can only be produced by the proper Eastern boarding schools, too many cigarettes over too many years and a great deal of whisky and gin. New York's founding editor Clay Schuette Felker, 51, attended a public high school in Webster Groves, Mo., has never smoked and rarely drinks anything stronger than cambric tea. His accent remains stubbornly and glottally Midwestern nasal. He flunks the honk test...
...physical or mental abuse is banned by most universities and colleges and several states. But it still goes on to some degree. There have been other deaths. Last year at the University of Nevada at Reno John Davies died after being forced to drink straight alcohol, whisky, vodka and gin, for more than 24 hours by a fraternity called the Sundowners. In New Jersey in 1974 William Flowers, a pledge to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Monmouth College, suffocated in a "grave" he had been forced to dig for himself on a rainswept beach...
Southern cookery has inspired more versification, disputation and calumniation than gin, politics or pulchritude. Senior Writer Michael Demarest, a deep-fry gourmet of the Ogden Nash School, reports...
...Ford took him to the posh French restaurant Sans Souci. The rare public lunch proved to be a huge headache for the Secret Service but a field day for reporters (four of them feasted at a nearby table). Ford downed two martinis and a chefs salad; his wife sipped gin-and-tonics and ate Dover sole. The tab came to $25.36, and Betty Ford picked...
Since he is the best-known Pied Piper of journalistic commandos, his tune is worth listening to. He introduced his book Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail, 72 by lovingly cataloguing the amount of beer, gin and speed his publisher had stocked his motel room with to get him to finish his manuscript in a fevered rush. The prose that follows proves that the self-styled "Dr." Thompson has a decided talent for the feigned high...