Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lizard in the night forests of Cavite is counterpointed by the rattle of gunfire as a cigarette-smuggling speedboat runs a customs blockade offshore. The big beat of jukeboxes in Manila's waterfront dives does not quite drown out the clink of cocktail glasses at the opulent Army-Navy Club. Manila newspapers splash crime news in Hechtian hyperbole across their front pages...
...Keefe led the way for Kirkland on the rolling course at the Milton Hoosic Golf Club. Keefe fired two rounds of 73--better than anyone on the varsity ever did all last season...
...drinks require vodka. Members of the Burlingame Country Club, down the peninsula from San Francisco, have a special drink called the Menlo, a mixture of lemon syrup, soda water, sugar and gin. In Southern California, the Golden Cadillac (Galliano liqueur, crème de cacao, orange juice, cream) is catching on. Chicagoans have taken up the Black Martini (dry vermouth and blackberry brandy), the Brave Bull (tequila and Kahlua) and the Blue Blazer (mulled brandy, Southern Comfort and water). Washingtonians are drinking a new depth charge called the Kraatz No. 1 Special, invented by Hawaiian Businessman Donald Kraatz. The recipe...
Died. Sherman Billingsley, 66, founder and owner of the Stork Club, which for two decades was Manhattan's most noted nightclub and for half that time le plus chic; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A bootlegger in the '20s, Billingsley opened the Stork in 1929, coddled columnists and flattered the famous. Walter Winchell publicized the joint, Brenda Frazier brought her friends, Ethel Merman came with the show folks (and got a diamond bracelet inscribed "From Sherm to Merm"); pretty girls, famous or not, got gifts of perfume, gold Stork keys, jeweled compacts. In the '50s, arrogance...
...July 14, 1966, Alfred Hitchcock's 50th film, Torn Curtain, had its World Premier in Boston, Massachusetts. Hitchcock attended that premiere and, on the afternoon of the same day, he came to Harvard to receive an honorary membership in the Harvard Dramatic Club. These quotes come from a short question-answer period held at the award presentation, and from an exclusive interview held afterward at 4 p.m. in the Radcliffe Graduate Center...