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Marine Corps humor is also traditional, and the items fit for print are oddly in the Punch tradition, generally told with an air of we-were-gathered-over-the-cigars-and-claret. Once the Corps adopts a joke or limerick, its form is rarely changed, hangs on through generations. Typical toast...
...Battery strolled such elegant Huguenot grandees as the Manigualts and Ravenels, who every year spent a gay social season in the city, replete with races, receptions, and balls. In lively Creole New Orlcans that city of crawfish bisque and gumbo file. Spanish pompano and mackerel, fried plaintains, baked bananas, claret and Bourbon, absinthe, Sazerac and silver gin fizz--a life of dissipation was more alluring than anywhere else on the continent. But none of the hot blood of Charleston and New Orleans flowed in the veins of Thomas Jefferson, for he was above all a child...
Viennese Waltzes (by Emmerich Kalman and Franz Lehar; Decca). A heart-touching musical trip back to Europe's 20th Century Golden Age. On five ten-inch records Harry Horlick's orchestra evokes a vanished world of kid gloves, claret cup and candlelight. Some of the numbers-most of which come from Kalman's Sari and Gypsy Princess, Lehar's Eva and Zigeunerliebe-were not previously available on U. S. records...
...Pops have a strange recollective quality about them, and the Vagabond sits with a claret lemonade in his hand steeping himself in the past. He remembers this same Symphony Hall under the uncivilized spell of Benny Goodman's baton and marvels that a building can be so versatile in its atmosphere. He remembers a superb woman violin soloist of former years who later married a popular Boston orchestra leader, and while the purples and reds of Ravel swirl from the orchestra, he wonders how in the world the management reaches those chandeliers to change the bulbs. He sees disillusioned Seniors...
...even Mr. Caddow, however, would maintain that a cheap young run-of-the-wine-press California claret is the equal of Château Mouton Rothschild 1929. What he does think and many sound wine critics concede is that in its class California wine does not have to bow to the snobbish claims of foreign wine. And even connoisseurs are no longer so outraged as they were once when they heard cheap foreign wines selling at $1 or so a bottle compared with California wine selling for $1 or so a gallon. In short much of the vin ordinaire...