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...starts out simply enough: "We are a pious people but a proud one too, aware of a noble lineage and a great lineage and a great inheritance... we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the martial cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?" He aswers his question: "Not by two-thirds...
Well, this may be all right for a man who drinks rye when he's not drinking martinis. And it may be all right for the man who has the entire evening free. The people who would say that the correct proportion is six or even seven to one, and the correct time 5:30 p.m. will disagree sharply here as I do, but DeVoto pays them no attention. To him, they are persons who have gone "through ignorance or unfortunate upbringing, not wickedness...
...Rye...
...attention has been called to an article appearing in the Sept. 3 issue of TIME under the heading: "Corner in Rye?" In this article there is the following statement: ". . . Cullum named some of the combine's members: The Washington lobbyist for one of Chicago's grain speculators, a U.S. Senator, an ECA official and his wife, two staffers of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
...Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. A tender-tough story about a 16-year-old who tries on a man-about-town role several sizes too large for him (TIME, July...