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...Troyanovsky's first official call on Vice President John Garner was interrupted by the late Will Rogers, and the three men quickly abandoned the diplomatic amenities for a gamy, bourbon-laden discussion of the relative merits of the girls of Russia, Texas and Oklahoma...
...Gimmicks. Charity balls are no longer given by individual dowagers; they no longer have the great old halls or the coveys of servants of yesteryear. Instead, ball committees seek commercial sponsors, who think the attendant publicity well worth the price. Among this year's: the Bourbon Institute for the Bourbon Ball, Coty, Inc. and Harry Winston, Inc. for the Hope Ball. Even here the competition is heavy. Said one executive of Pepsi-Cola: "Last week there were nine charities in here looking for sponsorship. Pepsi does its fair share for charity, but there are limits...
...Clock, but he is destined for a fictional fate worse than death-to become a symbol of the brevity of life and life-in-death. His friend, ancient Judge Clane, is a Claghorn who never made the U.S. Senate but did get to the House of Representatives. He drinks bourbon and talks Bourbon: "Imagine a future where delicate little white girls must share their desks with coal-black niggers in order to learn to read and write...
Things are going dandily-the boys are $18,000 ahead-but the admiral (Dean Jagger) has noticed signals flashing from MAX's ship and concludes from the Morse that the Russians are attacking. Whereupon: somebody drinks a quart of bourbon and walks a window ledge. Somebody says, "Follow that gondola." The Russian consul pounds a table with his shoe. Somebody falls into a canal. Somebody proposes marriage. Somebody eats a mothball...
...motel last week cruised a Pontiac station wagon. There the owner unloaded a wondrous array of equipment: an indoor barbecue set and an outdoor barbecue set, a box of charcoal and a box of pots and pans, cocktail glasses, an ice chest, a bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw...