Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this Scotch-potch, Director Vincente Minnelli (Father of the Bride, An American in Paris) is a little unsteady on his feet, but when he gets them back on the solid floor of a U.S. barroom, he stands firm and delivers a raucously funny parody of life among the cocktail houris and their 5 o'clock shadows...
...cheer for the import of Scotch whisky, but perhaps there ought to be a stiffer tariff on Scotch whimsey. The latest cinematic highball, High and Dry [TIME, Sept. 13], is every bit as charming as your excellent movie reviewer says it is, in fact, so relentlessly charming that about halfway through one longs for a refreshing draft of Mickey Spillane. But underneath all the charm, the picture is a perfect allegory of America's fate in Europe...
...stadia and rewarding winners with stolen kisses. In the evening there were movies, and sometimes all hands joined to practice the mambo and the rumba, with Frederika easily carrying away top dancing honors. While the youngsters gulped gallons of Coca-Cola, their elders forsook champagne in favor of solider Scotch. At the end of one hilarious evening, some of the more enthusiastic princelings tossed their cousin Christian of Hanover into the ship's swimming pool fully clad, then all jumped in themselves. After that, Frederika ordered the pool emptied each night...
...first years, Allen has learned to live with the job. Behind his desk, he is sure of himself, knows what he wants to do and how. At home he is an amiable, storytelling host whose best jokes are on himself, who loves to sit around with old cronies, sipping Scotch and water and bursting out with gusts of staccato laughter. He lives in a handsome, ten-room house north of Seattle, with his wife Mary Ellen Field, their son James, and three daughters, Dorothy, Nancy and Ellen. Allen likes to dance, fish, play squash and golf, but seldom has time...
...flew a night airdrop mission with the French over Dienbienphu. His closeup description in TIME (April 19) was punctuated by the winking fire of the Communist antiaircraft batteries below. He also hopped over to Haiphong to talk to the American CAT pilots who were airlifting everything from ammunition to Scotch whisky into the surrounded fortress...