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...adventure, Malraux was a 22-year-old cubist poet. He and Clara were very broke, following a highly unartistic attempt to make a killing on the Bourse. Intrigued by archaeology, especially by a little-known Cambodian temple called Bantéay Srei on the way to Angkor Vat, Malraux got permission from the French colonial administration to explore. Off they went first-class-without a sou for the return trip. When they finally found Banteay Srei, says Clara, "It was a kind of Trianon in the jungle...
...isolated that they pounce at the sight of a girl. "If it's a blind date, you'll remember in no time what you left at home: your mother." At Johns Hopkins, the boys are likely to be "pouring a minor (you) another glass of Vat...
...with his wife, the Davises, and other embassy types. The group staggered to bed at 3:30 a.m., but was up within a few hours to fly on to Prague. There, Gronouski grilled Ambassador Outerbridge Horsey, popped in on a French industrial exhibition, sampled the brew at the Action Vat (a beer hall), prowled the heights of Hradcany Hill, and finished up with a 4 a.m. breakfast at the Jalta...
...competition, even the beer itself is changing. Once, as the industry saying goes, brewmasters worked with "one hand on the vat and one hand on God," gave little thought to customer tastes. Now many customers want lighter beers like the "champagne of bottled beer" pioneered by Miller of Milwaukee, and brewmasters (who prefer heavier beer) are changing the proportion of malt, hops, rice and corn grits to provide it. One holdout is New York's F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. "We're willing to forsake all those people who drink a can of beer once every two weeks...
...place. Within a year she held all the strings of power, manipulated the Emperor like a puppet. On her secret instructions, the former Empress was horribly done to death-after a ferocious flogging, her hands and feet were cut off and she was left to drown in a vat of wine. In the next 35 years, sometimes as policy but always with pleasure, Lady Wu murdered five of the Emperor's sons (including two of her own), two of her brothers, one of her sisters, the sister's daughter and several hundred of her husband's relatives...