His shy nature and his teetotaling set him apart from other students, and he socialized little.

"Which explains your teetotaling."

That was what America was like in 1947, when a teetotaling, Bible-quoting Republican from Ohio integrated major league baseball.

By 1828, the Methodists' practice of teetotaling had made significant inroads with the Mississaugas; at the annual distribution of presents from the King in 1828, Jones reported seeing a single Indian drunk, while drunkenness had been widespread at the annual distribution as recently as 1826.

But the teetotaling, early-to-bed president distinguishes himself at the parties by what guests say is an uncanny ability to remember small details about thousands of friends, acquaintances and staff members: the names of new babies; the number of children a guest has; the fact that an old college classmate played the trumpet his freshman year.

She's an innocent from the North Carolina hill country who wins a scholarship to Dupont, the first person in her teetotaling, God-fearing family to go to college, and while there meets a lot of people and has some experiences her beloved teacher, Miss Pennington, didn't prepare her for back in Alleghany County.