Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill Austin (Rutgers) was just another promising football player when he graduated from Scotch Plains (N.J.) high school, but blossomed under the Rutgers single wing into a one-man wrecking crew. Apparently nothing more than a straightaway runner, he has deceptive change of pace, is the nation's second leading major college scorer (72 points), has gained 663 yds. rushing, 284 more passing, despite injuries, yet is notably detached for a big-time star. Says Austin: "At Rutgers football has been a part of college, not college a part of football. I wouldn't have wanted...
...moonshine trade, and Cambridge presented him with its first liquor license when the dry years ended. The old man was a fiery red-head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title of "Rectifier of Liquors." He ran a chain of pubs in Cork and Queenstown, and "rectified" scotch and Irish whiskey to its correct proof after it was collected--much like milk from the farms--from the county's pot stills...
Nonwhisky liquors have also bounced up, nearly doubling their market share since 1949 to 23%. The reason again is mildness: odorless, light-bodied vodka has jumped from virtually nothing to 6% of liquor sales. Scotch and Canadian whiskies have sliced into U.S. distillers' markets until imports are 13% of total liquor sales...
...much of it goes awry. Perhaps the producers decided not to fret over the script, thinking that the nub of Drink lay in the staging, in what that master of accelerating insanity, George Abbott, could pipe into a yarn of careening drunkenness. Director Abbott and his downer of Scotch, Tom Poston, constitute the brighter side of the occasion. But Drink to Me Only is not an occasion, is not often very bright...
Europe more commercials are seen in movie theaters than on TV) came a parade of chimpanzees peddling tea, a horse in a German kitchen praising a new refrigerator, the Loch Ness monster breathing fire to light a Scotsman's cigarette. American cowboys peddled Scotch whisky in Spanish, and an African witch doctor praised British beer. Victims of auto accidents emerged with their shirts clean because they had been washed with France's Pax soap. "You can always tell the country of origin without a catalogue, even if you don't spot the language." said Judge Thomas...