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The squabble triggered a marketing epiphany. Figuring that pub-goers would be grateful for a record book that settled debates and bar bets, Beaver created one. In 1954 he tapped a pair of brothers for the task: Norris and Ross McWhirter, who ran a London fact-finding agency. The idea...
Sometimes Obama’s accommodating nature even upset his own supporters—Norris said that he would sometimes anger liberals by not being “dismissive of arguments that should have been dismissed.”
But Obama, Norris said, was “not the political junkie type that was definitely going into politics”—making his present position just enough of a surprise to arouse some good-natured rivalry among former colleagues.
“I was reminiscing with classmates the other day—and it’s kind of a thing only Harvard alums would talk about,” Norris said. “If Barack gets himself elected, we’re all going to look like...
Among some of the décor were hanging American flags, country music, and murals of Chuck Norris, bald eagles, apple pie, and a baseball bat.