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Most bars remain open until the early hours of the morning when the drunkest of the crowd stumble back to their hotel rooms or to someone else's. But take precautions. Obnoxious drinkers may find themselves recovering in one of the island's detention centers, which are know for exacting stiff fines on inebriated minors...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Parties Never Stop On This Texas Island | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

ANYTHING and everything you do-in the darkest of dorm rooms, in the drunkest of moments, in the most clueless of exam sessions--is on the record. That's what the coverage seemed to suggest...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Youth Is Wasted On The Young | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...small-town Babbittry. But young Gene Howe never had an easy time of it. He quit high school after two months, was often at odds with his stern father who once wrote in the Globe: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Even when Gene Howe took a job on the family's paper, his father agreed he was an "impossible" newspaperman, summarily fired him. After four years working as a reporter on the Portland Oregorian, Gene went back to the Globe. Later he borrowed $25,000 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Tack | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...such Lone Star independence ever since he fled from the towering reputation of his famous publishing father, Old Ed Howe, Kansas' "Sage of Potato Hill." When Gene was 15, sharp-penned Old Ed wrote: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Gene struck west, and after six years as a reporter, came back and soon took over the Atchison Globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Texan | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...John L. Green was haled for being drunk in a public place and cruel to an animal, his pet duck "Amos" with whom he had spent an hilarious Saturday night. Of Amos, the spokesman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported : "He was probably the drunkest duck I ever saw. He would stand up on the bar and quaff a foaming beaker and then go bouncing . . . into a ground loop, skid off the bar, and tailspin to the floor." Protested Owner Green: "I'm training this little duck for a movie career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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