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"Yesterday in that dog lifted his leg on a tree that was 20 feet across, 80 feet high and a 1,000 years old — what's left in life for that poor dog?"

— John Steinbeck

January 1, 1970

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Circa 1961, dining at Enrico's in San Francisco with a group including and (presumably a brief stopover made during the westernmost portion of the road trip described in '), prompting Gossage's tentative reply, "W-w-well, he can always t-t-teach," and, shortly thereafter, quoted by Caen in the Chronicle; later reproduced in "In With the In Crowd, Here and Abroad" by Barnaby Conrad, The San Francisco Examiner (10 July 1988)

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Circa 1961, dining at Enrico's in San Francisco with a group including and (presumably a brief stopover made during the westernmost portion of the road trip described in '), prompting Gossage's tentative reply, "W-w-well, he can always t-t-teach," and, shortly thereafter, quoted by Caen in the Chronicle; later reproduced in "In With the In Crowd, Here and Abroad" by Barnaby Conrad, The San Francisco Examiner (10 July 1988)