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OLD WALDORF-ASTORIA BAR BOOK
and in many cases quit this sphere when still in their prime.
But when all is said, the searcher for prehistoric man, for
ancestors of much greater stature, may halt when he reads
of the exploits of the exponents of the old American School
of Drinking, point to the record, scratch his head, and say:
"There were giants in those days." And others, of course,
will draw a moral.