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Reagan occasionally socializes with a few sympathetic print journalists and is not vengeful toward others. He has had conservative Columnist George F. Will in to lunch alone twice, and Columnist Patrick Buchanan once. He has gone to dinner at the home of Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., who many right-wingers think hovers over Washington on a broom...
...calorie beer boils down to less brew for the money. Not only do most light brands carry premium-brand prices, they contain less grain and more water. In spite of the dilution, such beers are not all that much lower in calorie content than normal beers. Observes newspaper Beer Columnist Steve Byers of the Milwaukee Journal: "The calorie difference between a light beer and a premium beer is five potato chips. Why get a worse taste and flat beer for five potato chips...
...nation's ten smallest boosted their sales. Too insignificant to get pushed around much by bigger brands, they concentrate on developing products with a unique taste and appeal. Among the best: Stevens Point Brewery of Stevens Point, Wis., which makes what a tasting panel assembled by Chicago Newspaper Columnist Mike Royko called the finest beer brewed in America; Leinenkugel of Chippewa Falls, Wis., which has been operated by the Leinenkugel family for 115 years; and Geyer Bros, of Frankenmuth, Mich., which last year turned a profit by brewing and selling a mere 4,500 bbl. of beer...
Owner Philip Lovell was a health columnist, an exponent of water cures, open-air sleeping and vegetarianism. Neutra, more enthusiastically than scientifically, designed for him what he called a Health House. It consists of a steel frame, somewhat like a huge bird cage, daringly jutting out of a steep slope. Without sacrificing its airy appearance, the frame is enclosed in a dynamic pattern formed by window bands, metal panels sprayed with a coating of stucco and cantilevered balconies. The entrance to the house is at the top of the hill on the level of the living rooms and sleeping porches...
...Smith Reader generously demonstrates, the columnist preferred to write about athletes with a touch of the rogue. His portrait of Babe Ruth is a small masterpiece. It ends with two Yankee teammates, Waite Hoyt and Joe Dugan, sitting together at Ruth's funeral on a sweltering day in 1948. "I'd give a hundred dollars for a cold beer," Dugan whispers. "So would the Babe," Hoyt replies...