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Fall from Grace. In Milwaukee, after being awarded a National Safety Council medal for two years of safe driving, Truck Driver George Pratt went to a ball game where he drank eight bottles of beer and a slug of whisky, adjourned to a tavern where he tossed down two more beers, headed for another saloon, missed a turn, caromed off a telephone pole, was robbed of his medal, called the cops, was sentenced to ten days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 9, 1951 | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...Bureau says it is still optimistic. The Class of '41, with only ten years to try, have done better than any of the classes before them. Already they show 1.42 children per alumnus and 1.19 per alumna. Harvard men are slug-a-beds, though, with only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1926 Fails of Reproducing Itself, Alarmed Population Office States | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Scoring for the Deacons were Jim Gabler, Dana Gotchell (2), Slug Dolan, Bill Clap, and Roger Wach, with Berk Johnson getting an assist on the latter two goals and one of Getchell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacon Six Wins, 6-2 | 3/13/1951 | See Source »

...with him. At a farewell party for Alexander Woollcott, she kicked off her black lace panties and presented them as a go-ing-away present. When budding Novelist Robert Penn Warren praised This Side of Paradise, Scott truculently replied: "You mention that book again and I'll slug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Big Binge | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...disturbing habit of drinking from a bottle in public, shocked fellow guests at a presidential party by taking a hefty slug when the others were raising their glasses in a toast. He addressed a public meeting with a cigarette dangling from his nether lip. Not to be outdone by U.S. Ambassador H. Merle Cochran, who had a shiny blue 1950 Packard, Uncle Barhen acquired a shiny red 19 50 Packard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Uncle Barhen | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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