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Then to Julius' for dinner and the strongest sloe gin fizzes in New York... Dropped over to West 4th, where Sterling Boso and Rod Cless room together... Bozo, an old New Orleans man himself, insisted that Louie played the river with King Oliver on the Capitol before the King went to Chicago, despite the statement of many critics to the contrary ... Caught the dinner show at Nick's, where Pee Wee comes out at night and Miff Mole looks at his watch every five minutes to make sure that he doesn't play overtime ... Then to Cafe downtown...

Author: By C.t. Kallman, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 9/22/1944 | See Source »

...Administration began to unwind the rationing program. Gin was already flowing out of distilleries in place of war alcohol; whiskey was back on the dealers' shelves, in plain sight of the voters. And then Sept. 17 was set as the day when all processed foods except canned fruits and a few other items will be unrationed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something for Everybody | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...Redoubtable Warrior." Arthur Coningham is over six feet tall, and built to scale. Sleek, urbane, convivial, popular, he does not smoke, drinks practically nothing (an occasional sherry, gin-&-bitters or small whiskey with meals). Win ston Churchill once referred to him as "no mere technician but a redoubtable warrior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tactician on Top | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Fetch that gin son and I'll spill payoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Down Beat's Tenth | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...news promptly brought out supplies of whiskey which had been hoarded in stores across the nation. And many a retailer whose shelves are loaded with such substitutes as tequila, vodka, rum and Cuban gins hastily cut prices to clear the way for American whiskey and gin. In Manhattan, prices dropped 50? a bottle. On the West Coast, the drop was as great as 30%. The industry gossiped that distillers would open the whiskey spigot wider immediately, letting out as much as 15% more of their precious stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: The Drought Breaks | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

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