Ted Louden was an OSU football player, a semi-finalist in a smoker in California, "a grifter" and a lean 6', 260 pounds. David shilled for him in their beer-drinking contests. Ted's trick was to throw back a pilsner like a shot in about a tenth of a second, spilling none from his big head and big mouth. After everybody had had a few, Dave suckered people into betting against Louden's ability to do one more, and the betters always lost.
On Mother's Day weekend at OSU in about 1959 or 1960, David used his mother's car to drive to Albany, OR, to a country and western bar that offered beer and loose women. There was sports talk until David told some guy, "You're the dumbest MF I ever met." But then David committed a fatal error. He turned his back to the guy. He woke up in the car.
The guy had knocked David out with a whiskey bottle. Before the guy could kill him, Louden picked up David, who is not tiny, and carried him out to the car.
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