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That is true. Gough, in 30 days, lost 48½ Ib. and reduced his waistline 9¼ in. In error, TIME stated he ''guzzled 1,080 steins of beer." Really he drank ten 11-ounce bottles per day or a total of 412 average table or 8-ounce glasses, which is much less beer than you reported...
...worst of all, your correspondent wrote that at the conclusion of his feat "he was lugged off to a hospital. . . ." That we feel was an unwarranted inference that things did not go so well with Mr. Gough...
Finish. In Los Angeles, one Galen Gough, vaudeville strongman, threw two 200-lb. beer kegs in the air and caught them with one hand, permitted three men to stand on a steel-studded platform placed across his chest, held an anvil in his teeth while an accomplice hit it with a hammer, lay down on a Persian carpet while an eight-ton beer truck drove across his chest. He had just finished a 30-day marathon designed to show that beer is strengthening but weight-reducing. In the course of the marathon, Strongman Gough subsisted solely on beer, of which...
...Angeles, Galen Gough, vaudeville strongman, celebrated his third week of nourishing himself exclusively on beer by drinking his 285th bottle, showing reporters he had lost 25 of his 260 pounds, could still twist an iron...
Debating the subject: "Resolved, that radio is lowering the cultural standards in America," the negative team won a unanimous decision last night, in a mixed meeting of Harvard and Radcliffe Freshmen. In addition to the two judges, Miss Priscilla Gough and the Reverend Mr. Newton C. Fetter, a decision was taken of the audience, to make up the third vote. J. M. Swigert '30, coach of the University debating squad, acted as chairman of the evening...