Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale, unfortunately, hasn't won a game worth winning all year long. You can understand what that's done to Yale's feelings, the way she looks at herself. We learn that the churches in New Haven have been jammed, remorse frothing from a thousand lips. Liquor sales soared as sullen undergraduates sat limp in their smokefilled digs, drowning the memory of a golden thing they once possessed. Need we mention the fourteen spectacular suicides (one symbolically, a sacrifice on the Bowl flag-pole)? Or the dingy homes of carnality in nearby Bridgeport, where scores of undergraduates sought shoddy release...
Smith, who drinks sparingly but ages his own 150-proof bourbon in special barrels for his friends, at first balked at the introduction of liquor on airlines. Later he decided to serve it-free. Says he: "It costs you more money to sell liquor than to give it away. Also, we don't want our girls to sell whisky. Would you want your daughter to be an airline hostess if she sold whisky...
...which Jim remembers: the years of prohibition. Jim Seniors place was up on the Hill between Concord and Huron Avenues, doing a brisk food business near the then-buzzing Harvard Observatory. Old Cronin kept his hands off the local moonshine trade, and Cambridge presented him with its first liquor license when the dry years ended. The old man was a fiery red-head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title of "Rectifier of Liquors." He ran a chain of pubs in Cork and Queenstown, and "rectified" scotch and Irish whiskey to its correct proof after it was collected...
Food sales account for 70 percent of Cronin's gross, liquor the other 30 percent. About 1,120 gallons of beer come out of the tap each week. Cronin tends bar occasionally, and voices wise words for other bartenders: "Remain aloof yet attentive. Listen, but never give advice...
Benevolently exiled, because, with the exception of dormitory living, AMP's are supported "in the style to which they are accustomed" during their stay at Harvard. Lobster, steaks and liquor flow in the upper regions of Kresge Hall, far from the pot roast and New England boiled dinners of the first floor serving line. "Of course, we wouldn't make our lowest salesman stay in accomodations the size of these dormitory rooms," a Texas vice-president declared, "But it's clean...