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Hardly a day goes by that far-traveling Samuel Bronfman, 74, the founder of the world's biggest distillery, does not telephone his son Edgar, 35. Last week, at his Chippendale desk in Manhattan's Seagram Building, Edgar took a typical call. Sam said he was feeling fine, but it was raining nastily in Clearwater, Fla., where he was on a visit. And by the way, the feisty father asked his son, shouldn't they market bottled cocktails under the Seagram label? Edgar smiled with satisfaction...
...recognition of both Dr. Chope's pioneering and the fact that the new pattern of disease so evident in San Mateo is also emerging in many another U.S. suburban community, the American Public Health Association last week gave Dr. Chope one of its annual $5,000 Bronfman awards, donated by associates of Samuel Bronfman, longtime head of Seagram's liquors. Two other Bronfman awards went to Dr. Herman E. Hilleboe, longtime (1947-62) New York State Health Commissioner, and Marion B. Folsom, former (1955-58) Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...Edgar M. Bronfman, president, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons...
Seagrams Vice President Edgar Miles Bronfman, 33, son of the company's Canadian founder and president, credits the switch to lightness to the influence of women, who prefer drinks without a lingering taste, and of young people, who find the "lights" easier to learn on. "Basically," argues Chairman John Martin of Heublein, which specializes in vodka (Smirnoff) and ready-mixed cocktails, "Americans don't like the taste of alcohol-it's too strong for them." Slightly more than half of the liquor Americans drink is still considered heavy by the new standards-such as bourbons and most...
...scope of the competition was all the more remarkable, said U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson in a final-night address, because the Mitropoulos contest gets no Government support. The competition is completely supported by private contributions-the first and second prizes were donated by Philip Morris International and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation...