THE BRYAN TWINS. Dick Weisfelder sent me a link to this article about the Bryan twins, who have dominated tennis doubles for years and are only three tournament wins away from holding the all-time record for most doubles championships won. The article retells the wonderful story that I posted on here about the Gullickson twins and the opponent who thought the same player had beaten him right-handed and then beaten him left-handed a couple weeks later. The article describes how the Bryan twins use their quick hands to pound each other from time to time. Dick comments that he never saw my brother and me doing that. Kids, one of the iron rules in our household when I was growing up—one of many iron rules—was that we were not allowed to fight with each other. Our parents were—again, upon reflection—surprisingly cheerful about our fighting outside the family.
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It’s genetic from the days of viking raids. If you’re on a tiny boat on dangerous waters, those on the ship with you must be trusted.
But outside that boat there are a bunch of monks and french farm girls that have to be assaulted before the sun goes down.
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When Elmer was a young law professor at William and Mary, and Phil and I were visiting him and Margo in Williamsburg, Phil got to play in the Law Dept.’s softball game. Elmer was at first base and Phil at third. Someone called out: “Hey, look, Schaefer’s playing first AND third.”