Word: horlick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saga of Happy Knoll is told in a series of letters, most of them from Roger Horlick, harassed member of the board of governors, to Albert Magill, the club's president emeritus, well-heeled elder statesman and occasional philosopher-he has been known to compare Happy Knoll to the Baths of Caracalla. For all its outward bonhomie, the Horlick-Magill correspondence chronicles a perpetual crisis -settling foundations, unsettled bar bills, membership raids from the wily rival club, Hard Hollow, and fights between locker room cliques (the change-shoes-and-leave set v. the shower-and-have-a-few-drinks...