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...dinner, grey-clad and booted, Dictator Stalin regaled his guests with a seven-hour, ten-course meal including cold and hot zakuska (hors d'oeuvres), bowls of caviar, flagons of cognac and vodka, which many of the Russians chose to lace with red pepper. Thirty-one bottoms-up toasts were drunk (some guests hazily estimated 37); Dictator Stalin preferred cognac. Among those toasted were Major Alva Harvey and Lieut. Lou Reichers of the U.S. Army Air Corps, who had flown the U.S. delegates to Moscow. They received the Dictator's handshake...
...delectation of your readers a letter he wrote in 1928 to a Jewish friend of mine about the purchase of some Pommery Champagne. On the letterhead von Ribbentrop's telegraphic address is given as "Weinribbentrop, Berlin" and the chief brands he represented were Pommery & Greno Champagne, Meukow Cognac, Johnnie Walker Whiskey and Grande Chartreuse Liqueur; note also that he refers to the firm of "Schoeneberg & Ribbentrop." Von Ribbentrop, the future Nazi, winds up his letter by asking to be remembered to the wife of his Jewish client and with "best regards...
...days after the Fifth U. S. Marines landed at St. Nazaire. France on July 2, 1917, Buck Private Abian Anders Wallgren was arrested for trying to smuggle two bottles of cognac into camp. It was the first vagary of a mildly undisciplined disposition which ultimately got Private Wallgren seven court-martials, never for anything more serious than "butting an officer in the stomach to get into quarters...
...distillery which has capitalized on the freak market. This year the company applied for a patent on "Liquorized Ice-Cream." As rich and thick as junket but tasting more like an Alexander cocktail, the mixture consists of 5% to 25% liquor (sloe gin, dry gin, rum, whiskey, cognac or Scotch...
French truck drivers, drawing triple pay, were going out of Leftist Spain last week sporting gold wrist watches, silk socks & shirts, smoking the best cigars. At restaurants just inside the French border they could be seen swizzling champagne, ordering such delicacies as speckled trout, fresh asparagus, vieux cognac. These lusty lads have been driving an average of 200 heavy trucks per day from Republican France over the officially closed frontier into Leftist Spain. The 2,000 tons they took in daily were mostly passed as "agricultural implements" or "foodstuffs." A truck careening down the road at Montauban overturned last week...