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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...
...these are excellent sports in their ways, but to the average American they bear about the same satisfying relationship to real football as chopped liver does to rare sirloin, or 3.2 beer to a belt of bourbon. Real football, for nine out of ten, is the pro variety. High school football is nice, if you enjoy seeing beardless adolescents trying to cripple each other. College football can be fun-picnics on the tailgate, and lots of juiced-up nostalgia -but the game itself is static, sloppy and full of mistakes. No. For the true fan, only the pro game will...
Mailer was surely the best actor to pay us court, the most practiced at thinking on his feet with a glass in his hand. Now and again he paused, sipping the fine yeasts of his bourbon, to regard us over a glass rim while his eyes squinted as if to flirt with a wink. Oratorically, however, he was off his game. A few weeks earlier he had read to an appreciative Harvard audience in Sanders Theatre from his new manuscript, Of A Fire On The Moon, scooping up questions as smoothly as a sure-handed shortstop, turning a few heckler...
...Saints Go Marching In, on a late-night wade through the swimming pool during a soirée at Southampton, L.I. Now he may party with the likes of Gina Lollobrigida, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Stavros Niarchos (former husband of Ford's daughter Charlotte), and Spanish Prince Carlos-Hugo de Bourbon, whom Ford reportedly calls Jack Daniels. "Frank Sinatra sang at my 21st birthday party," says Ford, "so I've known him for a long time. But he wasn't well known then?he was just a singer in a band...
...years, a quirky federal regulation effectively barred U.S. distillers from marketing a competing light whisky. The rule: their bourbon and rye whisky had to be distilled at no higher than 160 proof and had to mature in new charred casks in order to be considered legally "aged." If old casks were used, the whisky had to bear the label "Stored in used cooperage"-a line not likely to boost sales. By contrast, the light grain whisky used in Scotch is distilled at 190 proof. Scotch is also ripened in used barrels, which impart no charred flavor to the whisky...