Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edwin M. Fleischmann, 61, millionaire Maryland distiller (distant kin of the late gin and yeast heir Max Fleischmann), who in 1933 founded the Calvert Distilling Co., which later became part of Distillers Corporation-Seagrams; of cancer; in Baltimore...
...beat business news, like his report on Trans World Airlines' Board Chairman Warren Lee Pierson: "When I first became chairman ... I picked up a card in one of the offices which read: 'Directions for making a Martini over the ocean: one part vermouth, two parts gin.' My first company directive was that hereafter all Martinis made over the ocean were to contain one part vermouth and five parts gin. Heaven only knows how many customers we saved...
...flickering brushwork brought every inch of the canvas to life, and created an illusion of space filled not only with figures but with air, odors and heavy thoughts. Levine's message to his fellow man was no longer propagandistic, but moral. Gangster Funeral may, like Hogarth's Gin Lane and Lautrec's Elles, live far beyond the age that inspired...
Each unassuming page shows why the dizzy decade of Teapot Dome, bathtub gin, flappers, crooners and "It" girls found in him an untarnished symbol of its better self. No Antoine de Saint Exupery, no philosopher of flight, Lindbergh rarely rises to poetic altitudes and sometimes drones on in childhood reveries and me chanical details. But at its exciting best, his book keeps the reader cockpit-close to a rare adventure...
Anxiety for Action. Harvardman Randall reads a lot and has a good sense of humor (he once suggested that more businessmen might read books if a law were passed prohibiting gin rummy), but he likes to study a serious problem carefully before he sounds off on it. With barely five months in which to make his foreign-trade recommendations, he is painfully anxious to get his trade commission in action...