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...middle 19th century, Vermonters occasionally wondered whether their cherished Green Mountains might not disappear beneath a new deluge of alcoholic spirits. Vermont Hero Ethan Allen and his hardy band had stormed Fort Ticonderoga smelling of rum; then more and more Green Mountain men were descending "The Fatal Ladder," (see cut) whose first step down was a social swig of hard cider. "Everybody asked everybody to drink," remarked an 1830 observer. "There were drunken lawyers, drunken doctors, drunken members of Congress, drunken ministers." Today, recovered from rum and soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about...
...beflowered needs to be stylish. Jack Cole's pictorial dances, Oliver Smith's airy sets. Miles White's gorgeous costumes give it style. If it has almost no Broadway snap, it has even less Broadway brassiness. If this is a Jamaica with little ginger and no rum, those, after all, are largely its exports. From at least a musicomedy standpoint, Lena Horne, gay colors, winning tunes-and even shiftless lie-in-the-sun librettos-are its tourist attractions...
...Also Bay Rum. Al's eyes were still closed when the first bullet made a hole in his pudgy left hand. Both gunmen fired at him. Another slug went through Al's clothes, made him jump as though he had been hit with a baseball bat, and bloodied the soft, warm, white, middle-aged flesh of his right side. Al just had time to realize he was being killed. He kicked out in such convulsive fright that he broke the chair's metal footrest. Then he lurched up in adenoidal agony and knocked over a bottle...
...Pour a Smile." Other distillers are also testing the Government's regulations with restrained ads that point up the attractions of liquor. In its most recent campaign Bacardi rum (which last year broke industry tradition by using a woman in a liquor ad) urged readers: "When tensions build up-take time to relax." National Distillers adopted the slogan "Sip a Little Sunshine, Pardner" for its Old Sunny Brook Brand whisky, recently changed it to "Pour Yourself a Smile. Neighbor" when the Government frowned. The French National Association of Cognac Producers earlier ran a series of U.S. ads describing cognac...
...Capriccio. To make the cappucino, a cinammon stick is mixed in the coffee. Tulla prepares an `"angel's bosom" which is sugared Cuban blend topped with a mound of whipped cream and a maraschino cherry. Neither place has a license to diverge into to inviting mixtures of coffee and rum or whiskey. Cook regrets this and notes, "A lot of good drinks are missed that...