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Typography Expert: . . . and roman lower-case letters of Scotch and Baskerville have two or three thou. more breadth, which gives a more generous tone, an easier and more spacious color, to the full page...
...government and PRIDC are also trying to expand existing Puerto Rican industries. To help the rum industry recapture part of its $14 million wartime U.S. market (when U.S. drinkers had to buy rum to get a bottle of Scotch), the island government will spend $750,000 this year on advertising and promotion. Then there is the tourist business, which the government hopes will bring the island an annual income of $16 million by 1952. With tourists in mind, PRIDC is putting $5,000,000 into San Juan's new Caribe Hilton Hotel (300 rooms...
...hearty appetites, Don Luis eats everything. If he has a favorite dish, it is the second helping. Fabulous tales are told of his capacity for alcohol (an old Washington acquaintance says he once saw Muñoz down 26 Scotch & sodas in an evening). But as Governor he has tapered off. Nowadays he takes only two or three straight shots of rum or brandy as an appetizer, and dilutes his wine with water. Muñoz, a busy chain-smoker (Lucky Strikes), has lately surprised his friends by breaking the endless succession of cigarettes with an occasional cigar...
...matter of (1) size of the glass, (2) amount of foam, and (3) percent of Scotch blood in the bartender. Right now a keg of beer yields between 190 and 220 ten cent glasses. Cronin's uses a nine-ounce glass, one of the largest around here, and settle for 190 per barrel. The Wursthaus, on the other hand, employs an eight-ounce glass, and works every barrel for well over 200 servings...
Hollywood has progressed a lot less than it may want people to think. The Kenmore's twelve-year-old adaptation of Sir J. M. Barrie's story of a newly hired little minister who wins over both a Scotch village and a vixen shows this very well. For "The Little Minister" is among the best movie entertainment to reach Boston in a long time...