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Let’s slip out of these clothes and into a dry martini. A by- now almost proverbial quip by author and wit Robert Bench- ley. Benchley was known to drink; in fact, he was known to drink more and to be able to hold more than anyone in his cir- cle. “What do you drink so much for?” F. Scott Fitzgerald, of all people, once lectured him. “Don’t you know alcohol is slow poison?” “So who’s in a hurry?” Benchley replied. Another time he observed, “Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.” |