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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...
...Biggs was dispatched for scotch tape to cover openings in the pipe, while Mr. Flentrop gallantly placed his finger against the bottom to keep the wine from spilling...
...leaking!" Wine dripped onto the floor and Mrs. Biggs rushed over with more scotch tape. As he held the pipe, smiling embarrassedly, Mr. Flentrop suggested Hans who saved the dike or perhaps the harassed captain of a bazooka team. The wine was finally poured...