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...train, bus, airplane, car, and the University Travel Service. By any of these systems, a trip consists of two distinct steps: (1) the pre-New York or "New England" stage, and (2) the post New York or "Middle Atlantic" stage. Sometimes there is a third, the New York or "whiskey" stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Find Princeton, N. J. In Only Five Simple Lessons | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

Some patients were running doctors ragged with petty requests. ("I always use Carter's Little Liver Pills. Please can I have a chit so that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey and rum for their patients-at government expense. Some patients were unreasonable. One physician, forced to cancel his evening office hours because of a difficult, ten-hour delivery, was greeted at his surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two Wigs & Lots of Teeth | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

This man was a good at the poll as he was on the podium. In his last campaign Richmond, Virginia, gave Wintergreen more votes than Mason and Dixon combined, and in Lexington, Kentucky, he ran only 1,830,702 votes behind Straight Whiskey. What is more, he himself cast the final six votes necessary for his election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Flavor Lasts | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...Many of our friends among our jobbers, dealers and the consumer public continue to write us for copies of The Kinsey Report, under the mistaken notion that it is distributed free by the Kinsey Distilling Corp. We wish to advise them (especially those who forward us labels from Kinsey Whiskey or Kinsey Gin) that their request for copies of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (popularly known as The Kinsey Report) should be directed to their local bookseller or to the publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: No Kin | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Governor General Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, one of India's leading prohibitionists, also recognizes the difficulty of curing addicts. He recently said: "Those who have got used to spirituous liquor of any kind cannot bear the compulsory privation ordained by state prohibition without a suitable substitute. To replace wine, whiskey or toddy by tea is based on the fallacious notion that the problem is only a matter of selection of fluids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Noble Experiment | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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