DunwoodyDude Wrote:
When Joe Louis became destitute Schmeling reportedly sent him money and paid for his funeral.
I had heard about this. I think HBO did a doc in recent (past 5 years) about his bouts with Louis. I think people like this (who let the system use them, but buck in their own ways) are extremely interesting in the annals of history.
Had NO IDEA homeboy was still alive (until, apparently, yesterday)
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)
