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When the foregoing matters are attended to, there will be left a very serviceable plot gimmick, involving a playboy who has just shot his seventh wife "in the fleshy part of the thigh." His defense is that having drunk two bottles of Scotch whiskey in twelve hours, he was not aware of what he was doing. When the prosecution adduces medical testimony to the effect that anybody with two-fifths of a gallon tucked in would be incapable of doing anything, a lad just out of Harvard Law is selected to save the situation by ingesting fifty-odd jiggers...
...former schoolteacher with an M.A. from Edinburgh University and a preference for Scotch and soda, Nyerere is the son of a tribal chief, once frankly described himself as a "troublemaker." But, dreaming of the day when he might be Tanganyika's first black Prime Minister and needing the cooperation of the Europeans, he has moderated his views recently. London says that independence is a long way off, and the British have assured their continued control of the 67-man council by retaining a majority of seats for their own appointees. But as his followers sang a little hymn...
...Hopkins to Washington. Often he stays overnight, and the Upstairs Red Room (so called to distinguish it from the main-floor parlor known as the Red Room) is generally kept ready for him. In the privacy of the presidential bedroom, the brothers can unbend over a drink or two-Scotch and soda for Ike, a bone-dry martini for Milton-furl sleeves, lounge coatless in the easy chairs and talk...
...Sioux Falls, S. Dak., a woman mailed 400 Christmas cards on the day before the fateful Aug. 1 with stickers that read: DO NOT OPEN BEFORE DECEMBER 25. In Chicago somebody mailed a letter with a 3? Statue of Liberty stamp plus a penny, stuck to the envelope with Scotch tape. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Lever Bros, finished mailing 3,000,000 soap samples at a rate of 1,000,000 per day, saved $90,000. In Dallas a group of youngsters at the First Methodist Church mailed out their Saturday night program on a thousand 2? postcards, saved the church...
OLDER U.S. WHISKY will finally get a crack at luxury markets, long dominated by Scotch (and some Canadian brands), if all goes well. Senate Finance Committee voted 9-2 to allow domestic distillers to hold whisky in tax-free storage up to 20 years (current limit: eight years), and full Congress is expected to approve. Biggest gainer will be Schenley Industries, which holds by far largest stock of whisky older than six years...