Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good-cousin Texas types, with a slightly fatherly air toward young airmen. Barney is a shade more demonstrative, Benny a shade more reserved. They like the same recreations-bridge, poker, hunting-and enjoy a companionable highball, although they have shocked their Texas friends by developing a mutual preference for Scotch over bourbon...
...pecked husband, domineering wife, spinster sister-in-law, and haughty cook all enter the mix-up. Though some of the scenes where the maid, after finishing three bottles of Scotch, takes the baby out for a walk and makes long distance calls to California are as funny as the best comedies, "Three's A Family" is not always up to par. It is good in spots and barely gets by the rest of the time...
...taken up with an appealing village "daftie" (Playwright Curtis) - only children and dafties, of course, can communicate with ghosts. From his angel wife Charlie learns that he can still crash the pearly gates if he reforms a living sinner. He pitches on the neighborhood's lustiest devotee of Scotch, women and dice, and their efforts to outsmart each other provide the brightest moments in the play. In the course of it all Charlie outsmarts himself; no Heavenly fling, he discovers, can equal a good old Highland fling...
...Washington, a proud young man from the Serbian mountains told newsmen that General Draja Mihailovich had been misunderstood. While smiling Yugoslav Ambassador Constantin Fotich stood by, offering reporters Scotch and tasty sandwiches, dashing Captain Borislav Todorovich, late of Mihailovich's staff and now assistant military attaché, registered his complete dissent from the evidence on which Allied policy toward Yugoslavia has been based. Said Captain Todorovich...
...York, Eddie Rickenbacker announced that he was making good his promise to the first over-26 fighter in the Australian Theater-a case of Scotch...