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...became more than any other man responsible for the bomb, its use in 1945 and its future. It was an ordinary, uncurious man without any pretensions to scientific knowledge, without many pretensions of any kind, a man of average size and weight, wearing bifocal glasses, fond of plain food, whiskey-&-water and lodge meetings. It was Harry Truman, 32nd President...
...lizard, the short skirts and Oxford bags of the 1920's, they had not evolved yet. The only really distinctive style note was the transitory costume-half uniform, half civilian clothes-of discharged servicemen. The new automobile, refrigerator, and radiant heating system were still just pictures in advertisements; whiskey was 65% neutral grain spirits, and butter was hard to find...
...sailor was drunk. He held a half-empty bottle of whiskey as he swooped into a silk and fur shop. The half-dozen Chinese clerks inside looked apprehensively at each other...
...bagpipes announced the arrival of four kilted veterans, bearing aloft a haggis, "great chieftain o' the puddin' race." Behind them, a kilted soldier carried a sheathed dirk at the salute, closely followed by a proud bearer holding on high a bottle of King's Ransom Scotch whiskey...
...unemployed writer, Don Birnam (Ray Milland) tricks his girl and his brother into leaving him alone in a Manhattan apartment for a long weekend of solitary drinking. His brother, who supports him and knows his drinking habits, has left him no money, no whiskey and no credit with any neighborhood bar or liquor store. Milland, a gentlemanly alcoholic given to reciting from Shakespeare in cultured tones, leaves his dim, disordered room only to cadge money or drinks to get him through his marathon bender...