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Love-and-marriage just ain't the horse-and-carriage it used to be. Sitting beside TV's David Frost at a Manhattan fund-raising dinner last week was his long-run steady, Actress-Singer, Diahann Carroll. "Planning to get married?" someone asked. "No," Diahann batted back, "we don't believe in engagements-we believe in happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 17, 1971 | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

Diamond Lil and Moby Dick. Distillers are already clashing over the market for lights. Brown-Forman got Government approval to bring out a new light drink this year-a clear-as-vodka, 80-proof potion called "white whisky." The drink, named Frost 8/80, is distilled at more than 160 proof, then filtered through hardwood, softwood and nutshell charcoal to make it colorless. Schenley, National Distillers and American Distilling have brought suit -so far unsuccessfully-to halt the marketing of Frost 8/80. They accuse Brown-Forman of jumping the gun on their spirits of '72 and of causing confusion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billion-Dollar Gamble in Whisky | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

Brown-Forman introduced Frost 8/ 80 last month in 15 major markets. The whisky is promoted as "a bar in a bottle" and buyers are urged to try their favorite mixed drinks under a heady assortment of new names. Thus, using a base of Frost 8/80, a Bloody Mary becomes a Diamond Lil; a Manhattan, a Great White Hope; a Daiquiri, an Igloo; a Martini, a Moby Dick; and a Screwdriver, a Monkey Wrench. The new whisky, it seems, is versatile enough to masquerade as gin, vodka or even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billion-Dollar Gamble in Whisky | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...September, will feature either Firebrand Samuel Adams or "Washingham" himself. CBS hopes to land Richard Burton to play Adams, George C. Scott as Washington. Sevareid will do the interrogating again, though under the FCC "Fairness Doctrine" the British Empire might properly demand that he be replaced by David Frost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Prime Minister Ustinov | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...first group of applicants the committee admits, the report says, are those "of recognizable brilliance." "These are men whose intellectual promise seems to be beyond and apart from the usual measure of scores and grades-a potential William James, Percy Bridgeman, T.S. Eliot, W.E.B. Dubois, Norbert Wiener or Robert Frost," the report says...

Author: By David F. White, | Title: Chase Casts '75 Class; More Parts for Smarts | 4/1/1971 | See Source »

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