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...soft water of Scotland's heather-clad hills, the peat which is burned beneath the green malt, and the sherry casks in which the spirit is matured. Irish whisky is also made from barley (not potatoes as is commonly thought) but with an admixture of other grain, rye, wheat or oats. It is not "smoke cured" and thus keeps its smooth malty flavor...
...afternoon, President Spyros Skouras of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., who lives in the New York suburb of Rye, offered a lift home to his neighbor, Jed Harris, the New York theatrical producer. Harris accepted. This is what happened afterward, as he recalls...
...Greek friends. Then we drove to Newark for the funeral of a second one. Between times we stopped off at half a dozen Greek restaurants, in each of which Spyros gave a banquet for a swarm of other friends, assembled on the spur of the moment. We got to Rye all right, but not until late the next afternoon...
Nuggets & Chasers. Bissell did some library work this time and, like his fellow grubbers in the River series, passes along his share of historical nuggets, e.g., in the 1790s, there were some 1,300 stills in western Pennsylvania; no less an authority than George Washington pronounced Monongahela rye "excellent,'' etc. But what gives the book its special tang is Pilot Bissell's own experiences on the old Mon. When he reported for duty on the Coal Queen, he saw a dirty one-stacker, "a piece of marine junk." That was winter time...
...Panama or Suez Canals. There wasn't much that didn't catch Pilot Bissell's eye, from the architecture (mostly horrendous) of the houses ashore to a little girl in a spring hat on a slate pile. He remembers the valley's favorite drink (cheap rye and a beer chaser), the variety of foreign tongues heard in saloons. "Oh, it's some wonderful valley, the Monongahela. There's more hell popping and more loud noise in any ten miles at the lower end than there is in five hundred on the Mississippi...