Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow's leading grocery store. Sovetsky visky, which, according to New York Times Correspondent Harrison E. Salisbury, "smells like American rye and tastes like not a bad Irish," comes in two sizes: a handy half-liter flask and a large economy-size flagon. Price: 24.7 rubles ($6.17) a pint.* Says the leaflet which accompanies each bottle: "You can drink it straight, from vodka or cognac glasses, mixed with soda water, or with a sliver of lemon and powdered sugar added to taste...
...CinemaScope, New Faces is anything but small. Pint-sized (5 ft. i in.) Robert Clary looms over the customers like King Kong with a French accent. And minor skits like Snake Charmer (on his daily round of the downtown office buildings), which tickled theatergoers to laughter, deliver a hard bang on the moviegoer's funny bone...
Enter the bustling chaplain (Alastair Sim), rubbing his -hands. "Brrfssk! Ah! What have we here?" He has, for his first assignment as a World War II entertainment officer, a British army camp. The troops, he soon discovers, would rather have a pint at the village pub than enjoy the weekly entertainment provided for them by a group of patriotic ladies known as the May Savitt Qualthrop String Quartet. The daring chaplain decides to compromise and give the boys a local talent quiz show...
Arthur D. Bloom '56, publicity chairman for the drive, was not as satisfied. The committee had set a 2500-pint goal, and Bloom termed the total merely "satisfactory...
Eugel explained that contributing blood is not dangerous. Only one pint of blood is taken from each donor and there are 14 pints in the body. In 72 hours the blood content of the body is back to normal. "A pint of blood can be taken from the body every eight weeks without ill effect," he said...