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...Vermouth...
Count Ernesto Rossi of Martini & Rossi (makers of Vermouth, contributors to fine cocktails), arrived in Manhattan last week on business. Said he: "Americans as a class are not drinking people, although the cocktail habit seems to be regarded as a more or less desirable social amenity. . . . Americans [in Europe, where he has seen them] are divided into two classes: the Drys and the Dry Martinians." Asked by a reporter if he favored Prohibition, said he: "But for Italy-No. . . . We Italians are not blessed with the great sense of humor the Americans possess...
...York, N. Y., Sept. 30--Representatives of Dr. Huey, the Harvard CRIMSON's high-priced Chinese prophet, were served suit today by the Martini Company for breach of contract. The famous vermouth manufacturers charge that Dr. Huey had agreed to endorse their cocktail ingredient, but had broken his contract to endorse Angostura bitters, Sunkist oranges, Gordon water, and two tea-spoonfuls of sugar...
...fingers together and said, "Since the War we have become as bad a cocktail and Champagne country as you ever were in America. I am speaking not of the Americans who come to London but of English people themselves. They are drinking more cocktails all the time, and the Vermouth dealers are making fortunes. As for Champagne it is crowding all the other wines out of our smart restaurants. The women are responsible; they always want Champagne! Every year they want it sweeter, more heavily liquored. And after a meal what is their favorite liqueur? Creme de menthe! I suppose...
Died. Count Teofilo Rossi Di Montelera, 67, onetime Italian Minister of State, head of famed firm of Martini & Rossi, vermouth manufacturers ; at Turin...