A hole in a K hole
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Weird. “Otto Pickhardt” was the name of one of the actors auditioning for the role of Hitler in The Producers. I wonder what the story behind that was.
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The Churchill story is hilarious. He had been involved in a car accident and his doctor prescribed him with a note saying: “the post-accident [recovery] of Hon. Winston S. Churchill necessitates the use of alcoholic spirits especially at meal times.”
Apparently the law allowed for a maximum of a pint of “spirituous liquor” every ten days. The total demand for medically prescribed alcohol was eight million gallons in the first year of Prohibition alone.
There’s a great bit about this in the gloriously readable One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson; including the fact more area in California was cultivating grapes at the end of Prohibition than at the start (for communion wine and ‘concentrated grape juice’ [wink]).
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