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...Hamburg, Germany, in 1962. What Harrison called one of the band's "crummiest" performances was caught on tape when the not-yet Fab Four went to the Star Club to play their last gig after signing with EMI. Unfortunately, the Liverpudlian lads had a little too much zu trinken beforehand. Lingasong Music, which wanted to release the tapes, claimed John Lennon had agreed to the recording. Harrison disputed this: "One drunk person recording another bunch of drunks does not constitute a business deal...
LIKE MOST GERMANS, Bruno Hauptmann enjoyed trinken und grosse Cigarren with compatriots on special occasions. This 1932 New Year's Eve party occurred ten months after the Lindbergh kidnapping. Host Hauptmann had neither sought nor found work in that time...
...frequented the Hausmann brewery in Madison. Its bar is now in the new Rathskeller, a strictly masculine sanctuary on whose walls are painted Heidelberg students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust on the floor - but it got in people's shoes, was removed. Last week the Rathskeller...
...loving cup that is the Mount Auburn Clambake Award. The metal of this trophy has a delicate green tinge that sets off the bead-fringed wormholes in a most favorable light. The age of the cup has never been correctly estimated, although the Latin inscription "Sie Konnen Mit Mir Trinken" indicates an obscure origin. The winners of it last year were the Cambridge Flying Squadron but it is apparently going to change hands again this spring...
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