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...small-bore whiskey rebellion broke out this week. In defiance of President Truman's wishes (but not of any binding order) most U.S. distillers resumed normal production for the first time since Oct. 24. They had voluntarily closed down for two months, had then been limited to 50% of their normal grain consumption for another month by a temporary law which expired...
Labor M.P. Emrys Hughes, having heard certain disquieting rumors, had a question to ask of His Majesty's Government in the House of Commons last week. Was it true, he wanted to know, that shortly before New Year's Eve, 1947, two crates containing 24 bottles of whiskey had been flown from Scotland to ailing, vacationing Winston Churchill in North Africa...
...white wasteland of Lake Success. Others gave up; one French delegate (ignoring all traffic signals because of U.N. immunity) spent his time skiing down Manhattan's Park Avenue. Even the U.N. bar was almost deserted. One afternoon, a silent figure joined a handful of hardy newsmen. Over his whiskey, he growled: "Thash the trouble with thish place. Not an Irishman around." Anonymously, he disappeared...
...three-man romps, in which he hurls the youngsters against the softer pieces of furniture like a couple of shrieking medicine balls, give him the best moments of his day. Sociable, in a non-Hollywood way, he spends two or three evenings a week over a home dinner, whiskey, and talk with one or two of his handful of close friends (closest: Richard Conte). He actively dislikes nightclubs...
Bottoms Up. In Baltimore, the embarrassed manufacturers of Gallagher & Burton's bourbon promised outraged customers an investigation; somehow, 3,600 half-pints labeled as whiskey had turned out to be straight city water...