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...G.I.s. When they wanted something stronger than beer, Kotobukiya was waiting for them. Soon the Japanese, emulating their conquerors, began to say kanpai (cheers) over Scotch and soda. Out flowed 86-proof Old Suntory, now $4.50 a fifth. For undemanding palates, Kotobukiya also puts out 74-proof Torys, a throat burner that sells for 85? a near fifth (21.6 fluid oz.). Last year Kotobukiya Ltd. bottled 6,000.000 gallons of Suntory and Torys, had profits of $5.5 million on sales of $66 million. This year it expects a gross of $75 million...
...long characterized the performances of Judy Garland. She came on stage last week in Chicago's great Arie Crown Theater and, after telling the 5,000 people there that she was so happy she just wanted to sing, started out with Hello Bluebird. Bluebird got stuck in her throat. She hacked and coughed and failed to clear it. "The bluebird is in a little trouble," she said cheerfully...
Then her voice cracked in the middle of the last note of Do It Again and she shouted, "Oh, damn it." She walked off stage and came back with a glass of water and a peppermint Life Saver. She cleared her throat, coughed, sipped water, sucked on the Life Saver, sat on the piano bench and said amicably, "Why don't you people just mill around for awhile...
...right spots, and drew a tightrope champion's applause when she reached the other end. Singing Swanee, she pointed to an imaginary note high in the air, raised her sights, and shot a clean hole right through the middle. More applause. With a trip offstage for throat spray, she went on, getting better and better, until at the end some 300 people rushed the stage to shake her hand...
Where once she might have been expected to come apart like a sleeping pill in a puddle, she had turned near disasters into comedy skits and had brought off a remarkable performance despite a condition locally known as Chicago throat. She looked different, too. The wattles and jowls were gone. She has lost more than 30 Ibs., now weighs 102, but when someone asks her how much weight she has lost, she says, "About 185 Ibs."-i.e., her former husband, Producer Sid Luft. Instead of the familiar semi-kimono paunch-hiding maternity robes, she was wearing tight skirts...