Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Captain Sam Grant was a fine, thorough book, the best job ever done on Grant's early years. Another big job done with care and spirit was Margaret Coit's John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, a sympathetic and fair study of the great diehard South Carolinian. Catherine Drinker Bowen put too much fictional gloss on solid John Adams and the American Revolution, but it was the first biography to make him seem wholly human. Irving Brant finished the third volume of his massive James Madison, and William Harlan Hale wrote a fresh, readable Horace Greeley...
...Missouri judge, breezy, twice-married Tom Hennings zipped through Cornell and Washington University Law School (where he passed a three-year course in two years). He was a Congressman for six years in the late '3as, distinguishing himself chiefly as a two-fisted drinker, is now a teetotaler. How did he happen to be the only Democrat to unseat a Republican Senator? One explanation: many Missouri farmers believed that in voting for Hennings they were slapping Harry Truman...
...usually not at all immodest, brought them national notoriety last year when an undergraduate, desirous of demonstrating his drinking prowess during the initiation ceremonies of a social fraterity, guzzled a quart of martinis at one throw. Within minutes, the initiate was out and fading. Moved to a hospital, the drinker recovered but he had come close enough to death to cause the university to ban two of the three social fraternities (drinking societies) and impose strict regulations on the third...
House Divided. The family's attitude to the problem drinker is often an obstacle to his treatment, Anderson points out: "By the time the compulsive drinker has come to such a pass that he wants to seek treatment, the family is usually split into two embittered camps: the sympathetic who don't have to nurse poor Bill and believe that if he had more understanding at home and his wife would stop nagging, he'd be all right; and the wife's defenders, who see what a wreck he is making...
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...