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...parade of Prohibition witnesses took up the cudgels against the Demon Rum. They charged that brewers have taken over TV with their "beercasting" because "they need a new crop of drinkers to replace chronic alcoholics." The witnesses also objected that TV advertising plays up the creamy frothiness of beer and ignores its alcoholic content. Dr. J. Raymond Schmidt, of the International Order of Good Templars, expressing fear of the snob appeal of TV, told a pathetic story of "a little tot who says to her mother, 'Why don't you drink such-and-such a beer like...
Robert Benchley once said that "Romanoff's is the only place I know where the customer isn't always right." Chronic bores, cut-raters and devotees of the club sandwich have sometimes been asked to take their custom elsewhere, and more than once a letter of complaint has been tacked on the wall of the men's room...
...commission report paralleled the proposals Governor Paul A. Dever made a week ago when he called for construction of a state health center around the site of the new state chronic diseases hospital under construction in the Forest Hills section...
...reason Berlin can't sleep much at night may be that, as one of Manhattan's most chronic stayer-uppers (mostly with the bachelor Hoffman, who supplies him with the gossip of which he is so fond), he seldom uses nights for going to bed. This is only natural; the first half of his life was taken up with occupations that shunned the sun: waif on the Lower East Side, warbling ballads in saloons for small coins; singing waiter in a Bowery joint; song-plugger in the cabarets after theater hours; man-about-Times Square and minstrel...
...athletes among the patients at alcoholic clinics. These men, because of their exceptional physical condition during their college years, were at first able to take large quantities of alcohol without apparent harm. But their systems were affected by this overdosage, and when their condition weakened, their progress to chronic addiction was hastened...