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Snug Harbor. In Whangarei, N.Z., cold-sober Detective Val Edwards saw two greenish eyes staring up at him from inside a tide-carried gin bottle, was about to head for the nearest bar himself when the bottle broke and an octopus emerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...readers of U.S. magazine ads, Great Britain is a land of rare roast beef and rich Stilton cheese, fox hunts and elegant cars, castles and thatched cottages. It is peopled by snobby, sophisticated men who wear tweeds, raincoats and aloof looks. They drink only tea, Scotch, sherry, or gin and tonic. Such is Madison Avenue's image of Great Britain, and to many an Englishman it is "offensive and often unimpressive." So charged the London Economist last week in a critique of U.S. efforts to sell Britain and its wares. "The image that emerges." said the Economist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The British Image | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

Clear Solution. In Memphis, James Neal was freed from a drunk charge after, he told the court that he was merely trying to cure a gallstone attack with a remedy compounded of beer, Epsom salts, vinegar, water, gin and laundry bluing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...long run, Author Woodin's novel may be no more effective than a gin and tonic, but at the moment of consumption the sensation is pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brides of Sometime | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...Lapthorn. The first prize was a gallon can of grain alcohol for making gin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Frostbitten | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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