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...Groton. The 13 runners woke up at 6 a.m., jogged two miles to the golf course, ran a hilly seven miles for time, ran a practice hill ten times, and then struggled the two miles back to camp. But all was not in vain. Each guy received a quart of orange juice as a reward...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: It's All in the Game | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...protagonist is a late-model Amis antihero, middle-age division, of the type first launched in One Fat Englishman. Irascible and hypochondriacal, Maurice Allington runs The Green Man pub outside London, drinks a quart of Scotch a day and spends a lot of his time scheming to get his wife and his best friend's wife into bed with him at the same time. Maurice is a little short on charm, but any man with some of his phobias-sour white wines, sweet feminine conversations, more-secular-than-thou swinging clerics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Spleen | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...sitting in the john puking his guts out. It seems that one of the girls had stood him up for what would have been his first real "date" since coming to the Cliffe. Three girls and two guys were in his room finishing off the remains of a quart of Cutty Sark in between halves of a hallway hockey game...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: A Harvard Boy's Life at Radcliffe: Finding What Girls Are All About | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...judge sentenced one of the other defendants to six months in jail for receiving stolen goods-a quart of champagne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Dismisses Falsified Charge | 5/15/1970 | See Source »

...sitting in the john puking his guts out. It seems that one of the girls had stood him up for what would have been his first real "date" since coming to the Cliffe. Three girls and two guys were in his room finishing off the remains of a quart of Cutty Sark in between halves of a hallway hockey game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Boy at Radcliffe | 3/27/1970 | See Source »

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