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...almost like the old days when Howie Morenz roamed the ice, and the loyal hockey fans, who called themselves les millionaires, sat in the Montreal Forum's cheap seats, wearing white woolen caps, drinking whiskey blanc and chanting piously, "Les Canadiens sont là" (The Canadiens are right in there). Now the cheap seats had gone and with them les millionaires, but Montreal showed last week that it still knew how to encourage its heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tops on Ice | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...wife, Edith, whom he married while she was a physical-education teacher in Shreveport, La., and their two children, Catherine, 17, and Eugene Jr., 14, go to their 18-acre farm near Greenwich, Conn. There Gene Holman putters around in his garden, trapshoots from his terrace, or has whiskey &water in his trophy house under the stuffed heads of the game that he has shot. He cares so little for night life that he hasn't been in a Manhattan nightclub for two years, says: "I'm the kind of fellow who needs eight hours sleep a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Blue-Chip Game | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...Lady in the Lake." The plot is old hat of the most battered variety, involving, in addition to the immersed female who is never fished out for the edification of the audience, a gentleman stone dead in a shower and the hero (you) half dead and half drowned in whiskey in a wrecked automobile. There are moments of suspense, that are given a refreshing new dimension by the point of view, but they fail to save the picture from a dreariness that is enhanced by indifferent acting by everyone but Montgomery and one minor character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/22/1947 | See Source »

...Senate decision to retain wartime excise rates, on whiskey, beer, fur coats, lipsticks, luggage, admissions, passenger fares etc, was on a simple voice vote. The House had likewise voted to retain them, but because of differences of working, the Senate and House versions will have to be adjusted in conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Delays Legislation to Cut Income Taxes; Industry Demands Action to End Union 'Monopolies' | 2/18/1947 | See Source »

...year) but the prestige and power count. Today his Columbia Concerts Inc. grosses $5 million a year, keeps Lily Pons, Jascha Heifetz and $250-a-concert unknowns circulating through 540 cities & towns.* Judson, remote from lesser musicians, has close friends among his top clients, looks like a Lord Calvert whiskey Man of Distinction (and in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Master Builder | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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