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...remember that Ben E. Stein of Seattle was runner-up in the 1926 Western Amateur Golf Championship?an obscure runner-up is easily forgotten. But last week when Ben E. Stein played one-under-par golf to defeat Eddie Held in the finals of the Western Amateur at Seattle, his friends in the Northwest began to boom him as a potential rival of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. and George von Elm in future U. S. Amateur Championships...
...such critics as George Jean Nathan who love to employ dynamite prose for blowing up anything at all just to see how it looks in little bits. "Steeplejack" Huneker, as he was known, liked to exasperate the uplifters of the late Victorian era by his disgraceful behavior. Many a stein of beer he quaffed in scandalous company. Many an adventure he enjoyed because no proper person would. Slyly he defended the social standing of young ladies with bodies like "white satin stoves." He exulted in his holy war on behalf of Chopin. He inspired the admiration, even the imitation...
Totally different was the procedure of genial President Paul Loebe of the German Reichstag when one Adolf Stein, Nationalist newsgatherer, signed a story in which he graphically described how Frau Loebe allegedly eats peas, beans, spinach and other vegetables with her knife. When President Loebe learned that in retaliation for this article a subordinate Reichstag official had deprived Correspondent Stein of his card of entrance to the Reichstag, he at once interceded and caused the card to be reissued. Said Herr President Loebe, after thus turning his wife's other cheek: "Newspaper men must not be punished merely...
...barrels, and knew that he would be a rich man. He made up his mind to work harder. He had eight children. Every evening, coming home hungry, he tucked his napkin in his neck and filled his stomach with good food. His stein was always refilled several times. When he became fabulously rich a reporter asked him what was the secret of his success. George Ehret smiled vaguely and, with a big hand on the table, seemed to lose himself in memories. "Ja . . . ja. . . ." The reporter quoted him as saying "Good beer, good health." But George Ehret...
...wrote his name into history by the alternative of excess is that which came to pass one day in the German city of Rotenburg. General Tilly was about to sack the place when he was arrested by the spectacle of a burgher emptying a tall stein of beer in one prodigious gulp. In his admiration the General spared the town and wooden figures in the clock tower re-enact the Meistertrunk each noon to gaping posterity in the square below. Jeremiah, MacSweeney, and a large company of well known hermits, on the other hand, increased their reputations by consuming...