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...Feather, the Indian heavy, finally has the heroine strapped to a conifer and the No. i Ranger comes singing to the rescue. Nonetheless, there are plenty of fine moments along the way: an ex-diva of Germanic origin sings of her native burg (In Izzenschnooken on the Lovely Essen-zook Zee). A soubrette who wishes she were an unvirtued spy sings her unashamed worship of Mata Hari...
Until last December, there was little about the Zook Building in downtown Denver to distinguish it from any other six-story office structure-except, of course, the uncompromising fact that it was named the Zook Building. But shortly before Christmas, Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. erected a gargantuan advertisement upon its roof: a $15,000, 38-ft. 9-in. model of an Old Forester bottle...
...quarts), nobody paid much attention. But one day last month Jack Foster, editor of the Rocky Mountain News, explored a new building the newspaper is soon to occupy. Foster loves to stare at mountains, but when he looked out a second-story window he discovered that the bottle-topped Zook Building blocked the view...
Ministers, prohibitionists and other mountain lovers began to protest, too. So many letters poured into City Hall that the mayor devoted a 30-minute radio talk to the bottle, the city engineer personally climbed up to the roof of the Zook Building to see if the ad complied with ordinances (it did) and city councilmen discussed an anti-bottle...
...read: "He didn't mean it; we didn't mean it." It promised to pull the bottle down if a majority wanted it down. But Denver's loyal bourbon drinkers rallied strongly. Others cheered for the bottle, too. Jeff Fuller, a businessman with offices in the Zook Building itself, said: "I think it's a pretty good sign. This country was raised on whisky. Anyone who can't stand to see a little whisky, there's something wrong with them." At week's end the Battle of the Bottle was still unresolved; while...