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...absence in Air Force intelligence. His wartime cover stories include Alexander Novikov, Russia's air force chief, and a Nazi trinity: Heidrich, Rommel and Himmler. Of all his cover stories, says Stockly, the one he enjoyed doing most was Heinrich Himmler: "It was a real witches' brew...
...especially barley brew...
...active ingredient in the brew made by the Navahos from peyote buttons, which medical missionaries condemn (TIME, June 18, 1951), though some anthropologists insist that the stuff is harmless and none of the missionaries' business...
...Spirit of 76. Although the Old-Fashioned Fourth is dead, the nation today is more clearly than ever a vast and teeming monument to the Spirit of '76. The potent and bubbly brew of '76 was compounded of two unlike elements. Rebellion against tradition and authority, a spirit present in all men everywhere, was stepped up in America by the individualism of the frontier and the frontiersman's vision of a future that would escape and dwarf the past. This was part of the Spirit of '76, and it marched west with the mountain...
...Harriet Beecher Stowe drunk" It happened when youthful, innocent Hostess Aldrich decided to impart a higher tone to her claret cup by adding the contents of a curiously shaped bottle which she understood came from a Carthusian monastery." The day was warm, and after downing two tumblers of the brew, Visitor Stowe had the illusion that she had become a sailor. Her "berth" (the sofa), she complained, was "going up and down" so tempestuously that she had difficulty in climbing into it. Her last words, growled out as she collapsed: "I won't be any properer than...