Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Cash Penney's first venture as a retail proprietor-a butchershop in Longmont, Colo.-opened in 1899 and failed almost immediately, after he refused to bribe an important local hotel chef with a weekly bottle of bourbon. "I lost everything I had," said Penney, "but I learned never to compromise...
...French, whose outdoorsy days are over, have their laughs over bourbon in the Hotel Continental, for years one of Vientiane's only two hotels. No American girl who values her reputation enters the Continental bar/lobby; here the French drinking companions are American pilots-employed by Air America, paid by the CIA, earning $1000 a week for airlifting "rice" to tribal villagers, drowning out the echoes of antiaircraft fire with dope and liquor. "Laotian neutrality" and American "food aid" are pretty good jokes when you're ripped...
When Calley travels, Delta Air Lines in Columbus, Ga., wires ahead to ensure him VIP treatment; recently Delta gave him a first-class seat though he held a coach ticket. When he stops at a bar, Calley invariably finds his drink tab (bourbon and Seven-Up) collected by an admirer. While in Washington, where he was undergoing psychiatric tests last week, he had $10 thrust at him by a stranger. In Columbus, Calley and his friends are always guests of the house at the Chickasaw Supper Club. A local wine shop gives him a discount. The president of the Fourth...
...weird red Mass Ave buildings from which Harvard ejects tenants, and Wigglesworth; Nini's Corner; and sherry. We didn't drink sherry in Indiana, and I found out at my proctor's one night freshman year that you couldn't drink as much of that as you could of bourbon, and I haven't had any sherry since. Which may, or may not, explain why I was always lonely here...
Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn presented the Vice President, the President (in absentia) and Mamie Eisenhower with samples of a "limited" edition of china bourbon decanters, shaped like elephants, from the Jim Beam people. The edition was so limited that only 197 other decanters were awarded to "lucky letter" holders in the audience. As the evening closed, Martha Mitchell seemed especially reluctant to relinquish the stage. For 40 minutes, as impatient waiters flicked the ballroom lights on and off and collected the centerpieces from the tables, Mrs. Mitchell stood on the podium signing autographs, repeating over and over, "I love...