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...Jukebox. Konstantin ("a playwright must be a politician") Simonov made his source studies when he toured the U.S. last year under the auspices of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.* He brought back a strange picture. According to the play, the Average U.S. Newsman drinks a glass of whiskey, straight, about every two minutes, habitually refers to himself as a pig, and talks of little else except money, being ridden by what Pravda, in a playful mood, recently called "dollarium tremens." In the newsmen's bar of Act I, even the coat hooks are gilded, and the jukebox...
...bartenders, only two drinks apiece (the favorite: rye highballs; second choice: gin drinks), and some just paid a cover charge to gawk. Perhaps it was the prices, which to many a customer seemed to be over proof. Samples: anywhere from 45? to $1.60 for highballs (1¼ ounces of whiskey per drink), $1.10 for Planter's Punch, 60? for Martinis and Manhattans, 95? for Side Cars, $1.60 for the fancy Zombie (featuring six varieties...
...Name the Baby Joe." Catholic nuns in black and starched white waited at rough, wooden tables, poured stiff jolts of whiskey into paper cups for the grimy, beaten rescue crews. The news from underground was always bad. They found dozens of men who had been killed by the black damp (carbon dioxide) which had rolled out of old side entries opened by the blast. But it was worse farther on. Crews working near the blast had been burned, riddled with flying coal, and squeezed by concussion until their chests caved in and their tongues protruded...
...rope. He inspected garbage cans for food, begged meat scraps from a kindly butcher, sometimes walked all the way to Brooklyn to get a loaf of stale bread. On rare occasions he darted into a liquor store, after first peering carefully through the door, and bought a pint of whiskey-"for medicinal purposes...
Tisman sounded exactly like an irate taxpayer. He told how he had run poker and dice games in Vancouver since 1937. To do so, he had paid off Vancouver police in chocolates, whiskey, racehorse tickets and cash up to $250 a month...