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...Connoisseur. In Montpelier, Vt., while hunting rabbits in the woods one day, Robert Donald's dog sniffed out 40 bottles of liquor that had been stolen from a country club...
...money ($4.98 list price, $1 more for stereo) the frustrated conductor gets some bandshell marshmallows-Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, Fantasia on "Greensleeves"-preconducted for him by Arthur Fiedler, Morton Gould, Robert Russell Bennett. (Any armchair connoisseur of the Viennese repertory will find Conductor Fiedler's tempi in the Fledermaus waltzes aggravatingly slow, but Gould's version of Mexican Hat Dance is so inspiring that it may result in dislocated shoulders...
Carroll's intoxicating vision of the future: synthetic liquors, produced more quickly and cheaply than by present fermentation processes, with just the bouquet that the connoisseur wants, and far less risk of hangover. More important, a congener may be a big factor in the "just one more" reaction leading to chronic alcoholism, and this one could be left out. Meanwhile, Carroll noted that vodka is lowest in congeners; next purest is gin, then Scotch, then bourbon. Blended whiskies vary according to their proportions (and there are differences among brands). The drink with the most...
...Hartford Times in 1917 as a copyreader. A self-taught linguist, Lindstrom makes nightly entries in diaries in six languages, frequently translates news stories into Italian, French, German, Spanish or Swedish just for the exercise. He reads multilingually and voraciously-75 books a year. He takes pride in a connoisseur's cellar of fine wines, never misses a Brigitte Bardot movie (he has persuaded himself that...
...responsible for last week's court action is an Italian violin connoisseur named Giovanni Iviglia. Twenty years ago, an exhibition of old-master violins was held in Cremona, and of the 2,000 which Expert Iviglia now says were offered from all parts of the world, only 40 proved to be genuine. Believing that the center of a fake violin trade was Switzerland, Iviglia, with the blessings of the Italian government, set up an "Advisory Bureau for Purchasers and Owners of Italian String Instruments" in Zurich...