Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Side Room. Such enticements drew some 600 people to the International Inn's chandeliered Federal Room. To make things merrier, there were baskets filled with miniature Scotch and bourbon bottles on each table; there was sherry in and with the soup, a '59 Pouilly-Fuisse with the fish, champagne with the dessert (which was soaked in Cherry Heering). and cognac with the coffee. The guests included not only the Washington regulars-like Mike Mansfield and Hubert Humphrey-but a large assortment of out-of-towners. Among those present was the New York Yankees' outfielder Mickey...
Beyond all that, many Oklahomans became suspicious of Edmondson's personal ways. He preferred Scotch and soda to bourbon and water. Although admittedly broke when he became Governor, he built himself a $70,000 home, borrowing most of the money on his future potential as a lawyer. On a visit to Chicago last year, he was arrested for speeding; a local TV weather girl was with him at the time. He made no bones about favoring his political pals with lucrative state jobs, said matter-of-factly: "The money is there to hand out, and I'm sure...
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., $22,000; C. R. Bard Inc., Murray Hill, N.J., $20,000; Sterilon Corp., Buffalo, $15,886; Richards Manufacturing Co., Memphis, $14,000; Orthopedic Equipment Co., Bourbon, Ind., $13,000; Clay-Adams Inc., N.Y.C., $5,457; Warren E. Collins Inc., Boston, $4,855; Taylor Instrument Co., Rochester, N.Y., $4,650; Acme Cotton Products Co., N.Y.C., $4,000; E. Leitz Inc., N.Y.C., $2,880; Birtcher Corp., Los Angeles, $970; J. H. Emerson Co., Cambridge, Mass., $450; Tecumseh Products Co., Tecumseh, Mich., $200; George P. Pilling & Co., Philadelphia...
...General Sarnoff prefers Suite 486 in a wing of the hotel that is not air-conditioned, special 220-volt lines are run to the room, air-conditioner installed, along with (naturally) an RCA color television set. Shell Oil Co.'s Director H.S.M. Burns likes "Wild Turkey" bourbon, finds a fifth of it waiting for him when he arrives. Commander Whitehead, besides a gross or two of Schweppes, is also provided with a bottle of Beefeater's gin and a key to the pool for his early-morning swim...
...Barn. Pekin, the home of Bird Farm Sausage, Bourbon Supreme and Olt's Duck Calls, was a pleasant place for boys. They played "stink base," "run, sheep, run," football and marbles, fished for crappies and perch in the river. The block on which the Dirksen house stood was rimmed with bushy maple trees, and Tom Dirksen recalls that "you could climb up in one tree and go all the way around the block without touching the ground, climbing from tree to tree." But Everett didn't go in too much for that sort of amusement. Says...