Word: sam
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Congressman Jimmy Roosevelt wants to be mayor of Los Angeles-and in his campaign for election in the municipal primary on April 6, he is giving almost as good as he gets from Incumbent Sam Yorty, one of the least rascible men in U.S. political life. A sample Roosevelt-Yorty exchange last week...
Hardly a day goes by that far-traveling Samuel Bronfman, 74, the founder of the world's biggest distillery, does not telephone his son Edgar, 35. Last week, at his Chippendale desk in Manhattan's Seagram Building, Edgar took a typical call. Sam said he was feeling fine, but it was raining nastily in Clearwater, Fla., where he was on a visit. And by the way, the feisty father asked his son, shouldn't they market bottled cocktails under the Seagram label? Edgar smiled with satisfaction...
Under its Calvert label, Seagram this week will begin marketing the four most popular U.S. cocktails-martini, Manhattan, whisky sour and daiquiri. The first shipments will go to Connecticut and northern New York, and then the Calvert cocktails will be gradually introduced around the U.S. Sam Bronfman seems so smitten with the idea that Edgar may put out mixed drinks under the costlier Seagram label, which has always been Sam's pet trademark...
...typical demonstration of the team's enthusiasm came in the 600, when a dozen red-shirted bodies embraced willowy sophomore Joe Sam Robinson as he fell across the finish line after a stirring second-place performance...
Robinson's second place was the most spectacular of the other Crimson performances. Starting in the outside lane from an unstaggered start, Sam was forced to bide his time until the gun lap. Then he shifted into passing gear and caught everyone but Army's Henry Farrell, who led all the way and finished...