Word: bourbon
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...Service's public affairs officer in Luangprabang, Corrigan acquired a working knowledge of the Lao language and a stomach that could take the glutinous rice and fiery red peppers he was served when traveling about the back country. He shot craps with the governor of the province, drank bourbon with Meo tribesmen. One main job was bouncing into small villages by plane, Jeep or muleback to show propaganda films about Communist terrorism. Filmed in Laos, the movies were accompanied by up-to-date versions of the traditional mohlam ballads (a kind of Laotian version of calypso) and were tremendously...
...Boston Bourbon & Saliva Sir: The piece on Painter Mark Rothko in TIME was terrific! "Yet if there is a painter alive who appears to be painting nothing, it is Rothko !" You said it, man-nothing ! You'd better check your art department-I've a hunch someone may be putting bourbon in the water cooler...
...Rayburn lieutenant in the House went to the bizarre extreme of sending a case of bourbon to a boozing pro-Smith Southerner in hopes that the man would be too drunk or too hung over to go to the Hill and vote. (The plot failed: Smith men saw to it that the man got to the Capitol to cast his no.) Cracking down on liberal Republicans who had promised to vote for the Rayburn plan, Charlie Halleck at one point grabbed a Congressman by the coat lapels and literally shook him. The man staggered away cursing Halleck...
Life on the White House social front was just as active. At the first Kennedy reception (for 300 executive appointees and their families), there was a well-stocked bar in the presidential mansion for the first time in Washington's memory-bourbon, Scotch, vodka, champagne, martinis, and Cokes for the kids. Washington Star Reporter Betty Beale was so startled that she wrote a story next day listing all the shattered precedents. Among them: newsmen were allowed to mingle with guests, hors d'oeuvres were fancier than ever, guests were welcomed as soon as they arrived instead of waiting...
Died. Henry Morton Robinson, 62, onetime Reader's Digest editor and best-selling novelist, whose prolix portraits included purveyors of religion (The Cardinal) as well as purveyors of bourbon (Water of Life), and who confessed himself "delighted" with being called slick; of complications from burns suffered last month in a bathtub; in New York City. A protean penman, Robinson's nonfiction ranged from Private Virtue, Public Good, an anti-Rooseveltian treatise later reprinted in 1,000,000 copies after it appeared as a Digest article in 1938, to A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, an exercise in academic...