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Monty's Treat. All this poignancy, immersed as it was in the conventional eccentricities of moviemaking, rested in the big picture like an avocado in a punchbowl full of gin. Marilyn's entourage included a coiffure specialist who had just flown in from "doing Elizabeth Taylor," a makeup man in madras shorts, a massive masseur, a maid, a secretary, three wardrobe women (she has three copies of each dress she wears in the film), and Paula Strasberg. Dramatic coach, lay analyst, and wife of the Actors' Studio's Lee Strasberg, Paula stayed close to her ward...
...solemnly swear to take aboard no supplies during the crossing. The club, somewhat surprisingly, approved. Soon there were 150 inquiries from adventurous yachtsmen as far away as California, and hungry would-be sponsors clamored for a slice of the publicity pie. RCA offered radios, Autolite supplied batteries, and Plymouth Gin solicitously insisted on stocking each boat with a "survival kit"-one part gin, one part vermouth, and a guide to martini mixing...
Grimly serious, Hasler predicted victory, based his hopes on Jester, a radically designed, 25-ft. gin. boat that carried no rigging-only a single, easy-to-handle lug sail. Gentle and fun-loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean...
Scout and her brother live in Maycomb, Alabama, where every family that amounts to anything has a streak-a peculiar streak, or a morbid streak, or one involving a little ladylike tippling at Lydia Pinkham bottles filled with gin. The Finch family streak is a good deal more serious -it is an overpowering disposition toward sanity. This is the flaw that makes Jem interrupt the boasting of a lineage-proud dowager to ask "Is this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend...
...picked up ten prominent Negroes, airlifted them to a conference at Kennedy's Georgetown home in Washington. It was, as one of the Negroes reported later, a "real red-carpet" welcome. "We had brunch on the patio, and there was a subtle punch beforehand-I thought there was gin in there, but I heard it was cognac. There was chicken and some fancy kind of eggs, and there were whites and Negroes waiting on us. Afterward, that man must have given away $100 worth of cigars from some foreign country. Mrs. Kennedy was there, too, and later they...