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...alcohol, would cure almost everything. He also has a corps of gagsters turning out jingles and jokes insinuating that Hadacol is an aphrodisiac. In dry southern states, Hadacol has another virtue; its 24-proof alcoholic content makes it just the thing for binges. Medicine Man LeBlanc, who prefers straight bourbon himself, can hardly understand this last fact because, he says, Hadacol "tastes so bad I don't see how anybody could drink enough to get high...
Setback. Politicians who got close to him during that spell were somewhat astonished at what they saw. Dulles turned out to be a man who preferred bourbon, who had an unexpected, thunderous guffaw, and who relished campaigning. His easy manner belied the crack inevitably attached to his name: "dull, duller, Dulles." He refused to talk down. He went from town to town, a slouched figure in an upturned soft hat, looking more like a threadbare professor than a Wall Street lawyer. But he lost to one of New York's great votegetters, four-term Governor Herbert Lehman. Not only...
Prince Juan Carlos ("Juanito") Bourbon y Bourbon, 13, eldest son of Spain's Pretender Don Juan, reported last week to be the official (i.e., Franco-approved) candidate for the Spanish throne. A shy, spoiled teenager, who is maturing rapidly, Juanito was born in exile in Rome, never set foot in Spain until 1948, when General Franco invited him to study in Madrid. This year, in his fourth year exams at Madrid's blueblood St. Isidro high school-nimble-minded Juanito chalked up grades fit for a king in geography and history, still found time for bicycling, boxing...
...noxious weed," Kentucky's Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby and a group of fellow bluegrass fans hopped a plane and headed for Bromfield's Malabar Farm near Mansfield to convert the heretic. First step: the gift of a sack of bluegrass seed. Further inducements: a case of Kentucky bourbon and a home-smoked...
...Though once the Swiss Guard was the elite of the papal armies. Their greatest historic moment came in. 1527, when they were almost annihilated on the steps of Saint Peter's by the army of Charles, Duke of Bourbon-but their delaying action probably saved the life of Pope Clement VII. Recent Popes have not needed such protection. In July, 1914, while Pope Pius X was still hoping that Europe's differences could be settled without war, the Guard commander proposed mounting a gun on St. Peter's roof. Said Pius: "Shooting might frighten the Holy Ghost...