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...belt-tightening measure intended to save money for national defense, India last week decreed an end to the import of foreign liquor. After existing stocks of Scotch and brandy are used up, Indian drinkers will have to depend on such local specialties as palm wine, rose petal liquor and a brew of saffron musk...
...citizens either drink, brew or smuggle in liquor with the kind of know-how that would have made Dutch Schultz green with envy." Speakeasies can be found in luxurious midtown apartments and in one-room shacks on the city's swampy outskirts. Sometimes the booze is genuine Scotch sneaked ashore from visiting freighters; more often it is a strange local concoction with a name like Jungle Flower, which has been distilled from such ingredients as varnish, kerosene, gasoline or rotting bananas...
...death of every major author, James Thurber wrote, is followed by the arrival at his door of a literary executor, who will drink his Scotch, mouse around his attic for a year or more, then cart off all his old laundry tickets, racing forms and telephone numbers for a posthumous volume. Anticipating this raggedy sort of immortality, Thurber once poked through his papers and. in The Notebooks of James Thurber, listed seven deterrents to their publication: "persistent illegibility, paucity of material, triviality of content, ambiguity of meaning, facetious approach, preponderance of juvenilia and exasperating abbreviation." In this volume of hitherto...
...When he walks down the street, people greet him as some sort of demigod. After home games. Vince and his wife Marie eat dinner at Mancie's restaurant-in ''the Lombardi Room." of course. The hottest selling item in Green Bay bars is Macnish V.L. Scotch. Everywhere else, the V.L. stands for "Very Light," but in Green Bay it stands for Vince Lombardi. And the worst rumor that can sweep Green Bay is that Coach Lombardi might not stay on forever, that he might some day move on to another city and another club...
...retail chain. The Bay also has a network of 16 wholesale houses, oil and gas rights on more than 15 million acres in central Canada, lucrative fur auction houses in New York, Montreal and London, and a tidy U.S.. Canadian and British business in a connoisseur's Scotch whisky modestly called "Best Procurable.'' The Bay's profits last year were an alltime high of $8,893,000 on record gross revenue of $294,406,000, and this year looks to be even better...