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...Communist list of U.N. prisoners, and this week Wilfred Burchett, Australian-born correspondent for the Paris Communist daily Ce Soir, told allied newsmen that he had interviewed Dean only a few days earlier, in a Red prison camp at Pyongyang. They had talked for three hours over drinks of gin. Burchett relayed Dean's story...
From here on he passes on his own prejudices. The correct time for The Hour, he claims is 6 p.m. The proportions for the martini (providing you use 94.4 proof gin) are 3.7 to one, ranging possibly up to a little more than four. If you use less gin, "it is a marriage in name only and the name is not martini. You get a drinkable and even pleasurable result, but not art's sunburst of imagined delight becoming real...
Disregarding these elements of personal taste, his book serves several useful functions. It dispels the theory that a martial cannot be shaken. It ridicules the theory that a woman cannot make a martial. And it warns against leaving the mixed gin and Vermouth in the icebox or mixing more than you need for a particular round...
Back in the '20s and early '30s, Bessie Smith was the rage of the blues world. She could punch a tune or wail it soft. She stood 5 ft. 9 in., weighed 210 Ibs., and she drank gin as if it were water. She died in an automobile crash in 1937. Her friends thought she was about 50, but nobody knew for certain...
Died. Joseph Wilshire, 71, former board chairman of Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn coffee, Fleischmann's yeast and gin, Royal gelatin and baking powder) ; after long illness ; in Greenwich, Conn. Beginning as a $1-a-week yeast packer for Fleischmann's, he became its president 27 years later, stayed on as president when it merged with Standard Brands. He built up perhaps the country's finest collection of coaches, phaetons, cutters and sleighs, which he habitually used for traveling about his Greenwich estate...