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Confident Democrats having a high old time together, all 900 luncheon eaters ($28 a plate) at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, applauded joyously one day last week when Party Faithful Tallulah Bankhead, wrapping her "dahlings" in her bourbon drawl, breathed spite upon the opposition. "Dirt is too clean a word for him," she said of Vice President Richard Nixon. Fumbling for an exit bit, Tallu focused upon the seated form of Harry S. Truman, listed sharply in a maneuver designed to land in his lap but, defeated by his red-faced agility,* succeeded only in a bear hug. Bawled...
...colonial days, Kentuckians (then Virginians) with a whisky taste had trouble chasing away the demon rum. The rum-makers once put through a law boosting the legal price to $15 a half pint. The Bourbon County grand jury even indicted James Garrard, a Baptist minister who later became Governor of the state, for illegal whisky selling. But by 1789, tenacious Bourbon County distillers had finally given corn likker an old Kentucky home. Though ten years ago bourbon was only 13% of total domestic whisky sold, last year it was 47%. Last week bourbon reached another pinnacle: in nationwide newspaper...
Behind the institute was its founder and sole member so far, Schenley Industries, whose President Lewis S. Rosenstiel has even more urgent feelings about bourbon than did the Rev. Garrard. Schenley reportedly holds 60% to 70% of all the old whisky in the U.S. (most of it bourbon), mainly because it over-stockpiled during the Korean war on the mistaken theory that a shortage was in store...
Hammerhead. Trouble is that bourbon faces sharp competition in the battle of straight whiskies against blends, which took over the wartime market. Drinkers acquired a preference for the milder blends against the headhammering effect of 100-proof straight bourbon. To recoup, ; distillers have been lightening bourbon toward the minimum allowable 80 proof, which also cuts the excise tax and lowers retail prices. Such leading brands as Schenley's I.W. Harper, National Distillers' Old Crow and Old Grand-Dad, now come in 86 proof, one reason for the rise of straight whiskies from 9% of the total market...
...retirement as the President's chief of staff, the President named Adams' successor: Alabama's Wilton Burton Persons, 62, Adams' admiring but totally dissimilar deputy. With Persons in charge, said a White House wag, the difference would be like that between hard cider and mellow bourbon...