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...fact that he had just come "very close to dying'' of an enlarged liver. Vowing that he was off the sauce for life, Sammy insisted that he had not been an alcoholic, but he allowed that he "used to drink a lot of Coke and bourbon. I would get up on the set and start drinking before breakfast. I used to put away more than Dean Martin spills." ··· It was not radical chic but radical chuck in San Francisco when partisans of the newborn United Prisoners Union (national membership about 400) turned out to publicize...
...Conductor Robert Boudreau and his rather grandly named American Wind Symphony Orchestra are bringing something precious to the river towns of Appalachia, the Kentucky bourbon belt and the Mississippi Valley. Essentially, Boudreau has a barge and an idea. The barge is an old coal carrier he got 15 years ago and converted into a floating concert hall. The idea has been with him ever since he graduated from Manhattan's Juilliard School in 1952 and found that there were just not enough jobs available for brass and woodwind players. Being a trumpeter, he understood the problem firsthand...
...happy philosophy: "I love livin'. Why go to bed? I like to party because I missed a lot of nights when I couldn't afford parties. I get my five hours' sleep." Asked what the toughest feature of the Greater New Orleans Open course was, he answered: "Bourbon Street." After tying for first place in the National Airlines Open in Miami last year, he stayed up half the night drinking beer and betting on jai alai. Next day, teeing up for his play-off with Bob Menne, he said: "Shoot, I was just coming in this morning when...
...tutor of Juan Carlos, the Spanish Bourbon prince whom Franco has designated as his successor, is a member of Opus Dei. Admiral Carrero Blance, one of Franco's most trusted advisors, is also a member...
...bourbon and blended-rye distillers were most interested in turning back the competition by bringing out a light whisky, but until recently they were effectively barred from making it. Federal law required that anything labelled "whisky" had to be distilled at less than 160 proof-because the lower the proof of distillation, the more pronounced the flavor. The whisky executives, led by Haefelin, argued that spirits distilled between 160 and 190 proof, as the lights are, still had enough taste to be called whisky. They also contended that the flavor would improve if this whisky were allowed to mature...