Word: magnums
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Died. Merriman Smith, 57, senior White House correspondent, whose laconic "Thank you, Mr. President" heralded the end of presidential news conferences for almost 30 years; by his own hand (.357 Magnum revolver); in Alexandria, Va. Smith arrived in Washington in 1941 to cover the White House for the United Press, and there he stayed to take the measure of six Presidents. His daily reporting was characterized by speed and accuracy, and his books (A President is Many Men, 1948, A President's Odyssey, 1961, The Good New Days, 1962) were filled with anecdote and insight. Smith's highest...
...Thermidor, filets de sôle Sainte Marie and bananes flambées an kirsch. The restaurant's cellar, equally impressive, houses a 1929 Chateau Latour ($60 a bottle), a 1949 Chateau Haut Brion ($43), and a goodly supply of 1961 Dom Pérignon at $55 per magnum. Les Trois Soleils offers no entertainment, but "dancing weekends" are a regular attraction at Orly's top-floor Brasserie, where "Les 5 G-Men" pound a beat of which J. Edgar Hoover would hardly approve...
...graduated from Harvard magnum laude, and was editorial editor of the CRIMSON...