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...Pancho" Sarabia likes good, quiet clothes and Scotch whiskey, speaks good English, displays the nerveless sang-froid of a proper flier. Born 39 years ago in the little town of Lerdo, he attended Mexican schools, crossed the U. S. border to get a degree at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, went to an automobile school in Kansas City, worked at the Buick plant in Michigan. In 1926 he took a $3 ride with a barnstormer. Next day Pancho started flying lessons and he has never been out of flying for more than three months since...
Ambassador Saito more or less endeared himself to the U. S. by drinking Scotch whisky and playing poker. Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi's technique is even more bland, more thoroughly Americanized than that of his late classmate at the Imperial University. His conversation, like his countenance, is smooth and affable. A 28-year career man, aged 53, he was embassy secretary in London during the War, worked on the peace treaties afterwards. He was consul-general in Manhattan from 1931 to 1934, with homes in Greenwich, Conn, and on Park Avenue. Golf is his game; drinking and smoking...
...Jerger has a taste for Scotch & soda, a flair for anecdote, a willingness to think for himself. He once wrote to the hard-boiled sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, suggesting that condemned criminals be given their choice of execution or submitting themselves as subjects for medical research. Mencken advised him that U. S. sentimentality would never stand for such a procedure...
Senate sentiment this week indicated prompt confirmation for the youngest Associate Justice. A lot of Washington's younger, less social folk, and proprietors of various quick-order restaurants, were thrilled to the core at the prospect of already knowing a real, live, Scotch-drinking, story-telling member of the Supreme
...followers who want to lighten their immediate burdens take narcotics. In none of these places, however, are Europeans prevented from making, selling or buying liquor for their own consumption. For all Mr. Patel cares, the British can drink themselves to death with their chotapegs (half portions of Scotch whisky...