Reflections of a stormy petrel

Personal side note - when I was in school, the kids discovered an interview where Paul Newman said when he was in college, he drank a case of beer a day. Being idiots, lots of kids decided to mimic the stunt. Paul Newman heard about them, and wrote the school a personal letter. His son had died from drug and alcohol abuse. It hurt him to have his name associated with that behavior, and he asked the students who chose to celebrate his birthday that way to stop and engage in some healthy competition instead. No one would have blamed him for ignoring a bunch of kids in a tiny school in a small town. He put himself on the line to make preserve his good name when a bunch of kids he never met abused it.