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September 1961

79 Years With the Bottle

His mother put whiskey in his baby bottle. From then on, any old jug would do

MY name is Louis R. and I'm an alcoholic. I guess I've always been an alcoholic--at least I've always drunk alcohol. My mother used to put a few drops of whiskey in a bottle of warm water and feed it to me when I was a baby. And that was a long, long time ago.

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