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Story of a Damnation THE DRINKER (282 pp.)-Hans Fallada -Didier...
Author Clayton offers an exotic "green Rotterdammer," made with a dash of green Pomerans bitters, two teaspoonfuls of sugar and soda water. "But," he warns, "add the soda water carefully or else it fizzes over with a nerve-racking noise." Illustrator Langdon ("Not a very good drinker," he says) tries to stick to a simpler recipe: stop drinking before it is too late...
Seasonal Planning. In New London, Conn., after Mrs. Francis M. Laraway complained to the court that Mr. Laraway was a model husband on weekdays but abusive, quarrelsome and a drinker on weekends, the judge sentenced him to jail from Friday night to Sunday night for the next three months...
...charged that Jones paid $400 a month to two of his sisters for "premium ideas" which were seldom used by the agency, and $8,000 a year to a brother, Alfred Jones, who ran a Connecticut chicken farm. In his own testimony, Jones admitted that he was a heavy drinker, but insisted that the chicken farm came in handy for entertaining clients...
...heroine, Diane Lattimer, 18, has just broken out of a reformatory. She prides herself on being a hip* chick who can deep-breathe on a stick of Tea (marijuana) or leave it alone. For junkies (addicts) who get hooked on Horse (heroin), she has the smug contempt a moderate drinker might feel for an alcoholic. Emotionally, Diane is a D.P. Home, for her, is not her Bible-thumping mother's flat, but a kind of Greenwich Village inferno. The neurotics who crawl across her life and the pages of Novelist Mandel's book have addresses on Bleecker...