Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laureano (no other name is needed to identify him in Colombia) is the country's Mr. Conservative, a blown-in-the-bottle Bourbon whom Liberals passionately hate. On the night of the April 9 riots, mobs of frenzied men seeking to avenge the assassination of Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, surged through Bogota's gutted streets screaming: "We want the head of Laureano!" At that time Laureano was presiding over the Bogota hemispheric conference as Colombia's foreign minister. He barely escaped the rioters (they burned down his house and the plant of his newspaper El Siglo...
...Joseph ("Colonel") Winn. 88, impresario of the Kentucky Derby, who ballyhooed what was once a pip-squeak. Dixie picnic into one of the U.S. racing classics (worth $100,000 to three-year-olds and over $8,000,000 annually to Louisville merchants); after an operation; in Louisville. A straight-bourbon man, Horseman Winn credited his longevity to the fact that he never drank until noon, boasted that after taking over Churchill Downs in 1902, he never placed a bet (although he introduced the pari-mutuel betting machine) or owned a horse...
...nights later, after downing four predinner shots of bourbon at a Syrian home, Coates danced the dubbke ("No serious threat to the samba," he told his readers). He put away exotic dishes ranging from kibbee (lamb cake) and yabrac (grape leaves) to baklawa (pastry...
...below the 1948 period. Some merchants thought that further price cuts were in order. Last week, five men's clothing chains trimmed suit prices from $3 to $10. One of the ten biggest U.S. distillers, Glenmore, announced the first major postwar price slash in bottled-in-bond bourbon whisky (a cut of $1 a bottle on Kentucky Tavern, retailing in Manhattan...
Invalided in a Melrose Park, Pa. convalescent home, Poet Edgar Lee (Spoon River Anthology) Masters reached 80, marked the occasion by having a cigar, ice cream, cake and a shot of bourbon...