Word: drinkingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCormack was an expert poker player, a talent that endeared him to Jack Garner, who was later called "a poker playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man" by John L. Lewis, and whose own political career had been given a hefty bipartisan push forward by a poker-playing Republican, "Uncle Joe...
Clean Record. Inevitably, a few accidents have occurred. Last year in Long Beach, Calif., a barrel of low-level waste blew up and scattered its contents over almost a mile because of improper handling by the disposal company, which lost its AEC license. In Antioch. Calif., two years ago, another...
Liquor Assets. The boom has launched some oddities. Three Swiss funds invest solely in Scotch whisky futures, betting that the drinking public's thirst will force up prices by the time the liquor matures. In one of the whisky funds, an investor who wants to withdraw can, if he...
Like most such oddball practitioners, Weiner had loyal defenders and produced some incidental benefits. One patient said she would still go back to him for treatment, though she had contracted hepatitis. Albert Briegel, 24, of Langhorne, Pa., gave Weiner credit for stopping his drinking. "I slowed down," said Briegel of...
It was enough to make a penguin take to the bottle; but Gleason, dieting, munched his Ry-Krisp without benefit of sauce. Although he can, as Susskind says, "put away more Scotch per square hour than any man alive," he rarely drinks on the job. The Gleason legend has much...