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...Christ mas Gift," Hemingway's 1954 account of near death in two plane crashes in Africa. What Look published was a mawkish self-portrait of the Hemingway hero emerging from the jungle with two bunches of bananas, four bottles of Carlsberg beer and a jug of Grand MacNish. At 54, he was ready to take the count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero as Celebrity | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...that man. When he walks down the street, people greet him as some sort of demigod. After home games. Vince and his wife Marie eat dinner at Mancie's restaurant-in ''the Lombardi Room." of course. The hottest selling item in Green Bay bars is Macnish V.L. Scotch. Everywhere else, the V.L. stands for "Very Light," but in Green Bay it stands for Vince Lombardi. And the worst rumor that can sweep Green Bay is that Coach Lombardi might not stay on forever, that he might some day move on to another city and another club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vinnie, Vidi, Vici | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...MACNISH St. James' Episcopal Church Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...masterpieces of the collection is a book entitled "The Anatomy of Drunkenness." It is by Dr. Robert Macnish of Glasgow, who claims to describe all stages of infoxication from "the delightful stage when one is neither drunk nor sober" to the eventual possibility of spontaneous combustion in extreme cases. This phenomenon was of frequent occurence, according to many authorities besides the Glasgow doctor whose works are in the collection. The burning, to quote from Dr. Macnish again, was of two varieties. "Sometimes the body is consumed by an open fiante flickering over it at other times there is merely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Historical and General Facts About Liquor Revealed by Group of Books in Baker Library--Opinions Differ Widely | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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