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...rage is for dry martinis with dry vermouth in miniscule proportion. The very dry (six to one), the very, very dry (twelve to one) and the powder dry (25 to one) martini have taken over; there is the explosive "Montgomery" at 15 to one and the "Hemingway" at 64 to one. Every drinker has his own private" formula. One Manhattanite buys gin by the case, carefully pours out a twelfth of each bottle, tops them off again with vermouth, then puts the case on ice for a ready-mixed supply. Others ease in vermouth with eye droppers and perfume sprayers...
...copy of the banned novel Strange Fruit. He raged at New Dealers for thinking the people "too dumb to know what is best for them," but he hated "the Old Guard minds" among Republicans and became one of Adlai Stevenson's top campaign writers. He said that Ernest Hemingway's characters were "anthropoids," that those of Dos Passes were "diminished marionettes." He cham pioned Pareto, James Farrell and Robert Frost, denounced Van Wyck Brooks, Thomas Wolfe and practically everyone else. Of modern Western women he said: "I should like to call them buxom, deep-breasted, strong-thewed...
...Major General Charles Trueman Lanham (ret.), 53, Dwight Eisenhower's chief press officer in SHAPE (and "prototype" of Colonel Cantwell, hero of Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees), is slated to be board chairman of Colt's Manufacturing Co., which was taken over last week by Penn-Texas Corp. (TIME, Oct. 3). Born in Washington, B.C., West Pointer "Buck" Lanham wrote poetry until it interfered with his Army career, later edited Infantry in Battle, a widely used Army textbook. In World War II, he fought through Normandy and the Bulge with the 22nd Infantry...
...news board, editors cover every kind of event and opinion, whether it means getting arrested to see how local police treat rioting students, or interviewing Ernest Hemingway to identify Haldor Laxness...
...hero, José Ferrer gave the season's best starring performance, whether spitting an opponent on his sword or agonizing for love of Roxane, who, as played by Britain's enchanting Claire Bloom, seemed well worth it. Playwrights '56 struck a more sombre note with Ernest Hemingway's The Battler, whose familiar plot (a heavyweight champion is broken by success) was well-served by Paul Newman as the crazed, broken-faced pug, and Dewey Martin as a young runaway who finds the world both terrible and tender...