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Entering 822, Roberts started in on the only regular exercise he ever takes: the lifting and downing of four large Scotch highballs before dinner. He stripped off his tentlike coat and trousers, took a shower, waddled around in his underwear for a time, got into a clean suit, and sat down to a roast beef dinner. Then he hustled his men back to the office...
...weekly newspaper column, "What People Are Thinking," Elmo Roper usually gives the facts about his public-opinion polls. This week he thought the time had come to scotch the story about a poll he never made. He wrote...
...Secretary Ernest Bevin defended the dispatch of the cruisers as necessary "to insure the protection of life and property," and urged again that the question of title be left up to the International Court of Justice. When an M.P. reminded him that the Guatemalans had threatened to quit buying Scotch whiskey, Bevin boomed that it was all right with him. "I have already suggested," he said, "that it should come to London." (Unfortunately for M.P.s, Guatemala buys but .002% of Britain's Scotch exports...
Empty Glasses. Not in any peacetime year since prohibition, said Harry L. Lourie, executive vice president of the National Association of Alcoholic Beverage Importers, Inc., had importers of liquors been so parched. In 1947, only Scotch whiskey imports were up (2,600,000 cases v. 1,750,000 in 1946). Imports of French cognac (200,000 gallons) and French champagne (151,000 gallons) were off more than two-thirds. Said Lourie: this year looks not much better...
Until 4 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, stocky (5 ft. 8 in.), moderate-drinking (scotch) Alton Ochsner, a bouncing 51, carried out his carnival duties. As. Rex, King of the Carnival, he wore a white satin suit, high white kid boots and bejeweled cloth-of-gold robes. But at 7:30 a.m.-an hour and a quarter later than usual-he was on the job in white surgeon's gown at Prytania and Aline Streets. Dr. Ochsner's real job is director of Ochsner Clinic...