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...published last month, announced that he is hard at work on a sequel. It will tell how some 50 of Broke's fellow Alcoholics Anonymous conquered booze, as Broke did after a two-decade bout with the bottle. The new book's title: Coming Through the Rye...
ROBERT S. RYF Rye...
...Soviet Russians did their best to make up for the oversight of their Czarist ancestors by putting, the first homemade Russian whisky on sale at Gastronom No. I, 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...
...once simpler and more complicated: "I want the second tree from the corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near hysteria. In "The Hour of Letdown," a man enters a bar, plunks down a mechanical brain, and orders rye & water for two. After ingesting a couple of drinks, the wonder machine unnerves the barflies by multiplying 10,862 by 99 in a split second, then caps the stunt by getting behind the wheel of a Cadillac and driving off. In "The Morning of the Day They...
...panorama scanned in this scenic tour of Thurber land is varied enough to suit any reader's taste. Mystery fans will probably find "The White Rabbit Caper" most to their liking. Out Spading Spade, it begins, "Fred Fox was pouring himself a slug of rye when he door of his office opened and in hopped old Mrs. Rabbit . . ." One of the choicest in the autobiographical vein is a little item called "There's a Time for Flags, or (Notes of a man who bought a curious Christmas gift)." The Thurber Diaries are like none other: "Dec. 15--Yesterday morning...