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...your article "Making Cigarettes Safe" [April 22]: Has Researcher Wynder tried ethyl alcohol (possibly in the form of bourbon or Scotch) for extracting the natural waxes from the tobacco leaf? One could have a smoke and a drink all in one and eliminate the need for the hip flask...
...beyond that, they reflect a very personal, crinkly humorist and constitute a very Volstead Act and vers-libre period piece, the two things meeting in the on-the-wagon Don Marquis who said to a bartender: "I've conquered that goddam willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch...
...place of a corsage, she sported a miniature display of the medals that she won as a WAC in World War II. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who does not hold with such flossy doings, hovered so long behind the punch bowl that a fellow finally offered him a cupful. Scotch-Drinker Mr. Sam was incredulous: "Are you serious?" he asked. This was the last chance this year to invite Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, and Ike pointedly passed it up. The only Congressman so neglected, Joe allowed that he didn't want to go to that old party...
...crew yesterday morning began the three-week job of enforcing the University regulation which states: "Occupants of the dormitories will refrain from driving nails, screws, and thumbtacks into the walls, and using scotch tape on the walls...
...Scotch on the Rocks. Natural disasters seemed few'and far between in the long solstice of Queen Victoria's reign, but man could always make his own. and give his own reasons. The "rainbow bridge" (1 mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this...