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Brokaw's variety of interests earned him the respect of most peers, according to classmate Duane R. Pokorney, who now manages the liquor department at a Yankton grocery store...
...step ahead of the 'law.'" If Billy was the ultimate preacher, then Franklin made a run at being the ultimate Preacher's kid: fighting, taunting the police of Montreat into high-speed car chases and cultivating a fascination for firearms and rock music and a taste for hard liquor. By the time he managed to get himself expelled from a tiny technical college in Texas for keeping a girl out overnight (their plane was socked in by fog), it had already become clear that an addiction to piloting small airplanes was overwhelming any commitment to real study...
Until the auction, Caroline and John may have got a bigger cash inheritance from family patriarch Joseph Kennedy than from their parents. For anyone outside the inner family circle, and possibly to some inside, Kennedy family finances can only be guesswork. This much is known: through speculation in movies, liquor importing, the stock market, oil and real estate, Joseph Kennedy had amassed an estimated $300 million by 1963. Guesses as to the total Kennedy family wealth that this fortune has blossomed into today run anywhere from $1.5 billion to $3 billion. True, it has been divided among swarms of children...
...just like air." Of course, laughing gas isn't the only remedy at his disposal. There are injections of Dilaudid, doses of hallucinogens, various vials of white powder, a pack of Benson & Hedges and a daily highball. "I'm an Irishman," he declares. "I can handle my liquor! Whaddaya...
Louisiana has always been known for two reasons: its resistance to intrusion by the federal government and its love of liquor...