Legend has it a bottle of gin led to the creation of Dr Seuss.
It's the early 1920s and Theodor "Ted" Geisel is drinking in his Dartmouth College dorm room. Busted, he is banned from writing for the university's magazine. He takes his middle name (and his mother's maiden name), adds a "Dr" to the pseudonym – and the rest is publishing history.
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