How did a nice boy from Long Island end up going to school all the way out in California?
I got into a fight with my parents, and I wanted to get as far away from home as possible. I looked at all the catalogs and decided there were two universities: University of Edinburgh and Leland Stanford Jr. University. I discussed this with my father. He said you really ought to opt for the weather. Scotland is pretty raw. The tuition was $114 a quarter. And you could sign for it. What was Stanford like in the mid-1930s? It seemed like a movie set: the look of the campus, the endless beauty of it. Those were the halcyon days of prewar America, which, oddly enough, was a very gentle time. Our only recognition of the gathering storm in Europe was an anti-war hop. Palo Alto was a long way from the world. And it was a dry campus. Under the deed of Leland Stanford, no alcoholic beverages could be served, even in Palo Alto. So we all went down to Menlo Park to get drunk. COSMO COUPLE: David and Helen Gurley Brown have been married for 40 years. Craig Skinner/Celebrity Were you interested i
