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October 1996

Ham on Wry

MORE ON DR. JOHNSON:

Did he have a drinking problem? An article in our September 1949 issue quotes Johnson's biographer Boswell: "Many a year did Johnson refrain from wine; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practice abstinence, but not temperance."

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