The glass was apple juice. It had always been apple juice. Or tea. Or whatever the bartender had poured into a whisky glass and handed to him before he walked onto the stage. For forty years — through the nightclub appearances and the films and the Rat Pack and the television show and the Vegas residencies — Dean Martin held a glass in his hand and let the whole world assume it was bourbon.
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