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...Langdon, N.H., on the other hand, citizens disregarded their pocketbooks. Rather than spoil their 79-year-old covered bridge by remodeling it to meet state specifications for roadway bridges, the townsmen voted to build a new bridge and to keep the old one intact for its sentimental value...
After 24 hours of pounding, the ship's quartermaster ordered all who could to swim for their lives. Fifty brave souls obeyed, among them Langdon Harris, 32, the only American aboard. As each bobbing head drew clear of the oil-covered maelstrom, Lebanese fishers plunged into the rollers and towed the survivors to shore. Langdon Harris and a ten-year-old French boy whom he held in his arms were among the 35 to reach the shore alive; 17 were drowned or smashed to pulp on the rocks...
...drier aspects of their research, Authors David Clayton and Punch Cartoonist David Langdon learned that some Spaniards call a hangover a clavo (nail), short for "a nail in the head." And one nail, they believe, drives out another...
...cabbage is the source of the first hangover cure that Clayton and Langdon actually recommend: sauerkraut juice. "Every icebox," they say, "should have this Universal." They also recommend "the Spirit of '76" (spirits of ammonia), and an international array of pick-me-ups. These usually contain at least one hair of the dog in the form of Pernod, curacao, cognac, absinthe, Fernet Branca, or just plain white wine...
Author Clayton offers an exotic "green Rotterdammer," made with a dash of green Pomerans bitters, two teaspoonfuls of sugar and soda water. "But," he warns, "add the soda water carefully or else it fizzes over with a nerve-racking noise." Illustrator Langdon ("Not a very good drinker," he says) tries to stick to a simpler recipe: stop drinking before it is too late...