Word: clicquot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson and De Gaulle exchanged polite toasts at lunch, Wilson praising De Gaulle as a man "who is not afraid of change," and De Gaulle saying, in effect: It's nice to see you, Harold, even if nothing comes of all this. The champagne was Veuve Clicquot 1959 which was Churchill's favorite, and it helped put George Brown in such a comradely mood that, as they rose from the table, he grabbed De Gaulle by the arm. The French gasped; it was comparable to tweaking the Queen's ear. But De Gaulle was unperturbed...
Died. Harry Reser, 69, oldtime banjoist, whose fur-trimmed Clicquot Club Eskimos kept the NBC airways jingling to the tune of Ain't She Sweet? and Barney Google every week between 1925 and 1933, later strummed for Sammy Kaye; of a heart attack, while tuning up for his nightly performance in the orchestra of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof; in Manhattan...