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...bottle; but Bronfman the elder argued that it was difficult or impossible to make a bottled cocktail taste as it should. Now Edgar says that Seagram has solved the problem: it has discovered methods of using fresh, whole-fruit juices instead of extracts, and of preventing the vermouth in the mixes from losing flavor...
Dorothy Parker to the contrary, ardent males and astigmatic lasses hit it off like Beefeater and vermouth. What the pass thrower seldom realizes in such cases these days is that the eyes he's making eyes at are sous cloche. How could he? Of 6,000,000 contact wearers in the U.S. last year, nearly 65% were women. Since contact lenses first became widely available in 1953, bad eyesight has not only won social acceptability; among the young, particularly, it has become a status symbol...
COLLABORATION: THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET WITH LAURINDO ALMEIDA (Atlantic). The M.J.Q. and the Brazilian guitarist seem meant for each other, like gin and vermouth. Not that they are intoxicating; their colors are muted, their moods refined, their rhythms subtle. They can swing, but seldom do. In Bach's A Minor Fugue they demonstrate delicate counterpoint, and in the Adagio from the Concierto de Aranjuez they conjure up a lavender twilight as the guitar gently punctures the lingering ring of the vibraharp...
There are even a few "tape-recorder youth," so named because they secretly tape Western jazz and popular music unavailable in Bulgaria. They affect trim Ivy League suits, drink "worker's brandy" (cheap, sweet vermouth), read such Western authors as Hemingway and J. D. Salinger, and furtively swap anti-regime jokes-despite the fact that Bulgaria alone among the European satellites still jails such jokers...
...Grandsons Roberto and Camillo Olivetti, representing two different factions. About all that they have been able to codecide is that they need the Agnelli syndicate to come in and buy one-third of Olivetti. To run Fiat and some 110 other companies that range from cement to Cinzano vermouth, Giovanni Agnelli's twelve heirs have put their combined holdings into a smoothly functioning holding company called Istituto Finanziario Industriale...