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...younger, more affluent and better educated than drinkers of blended Scotch. "People may be drinking less," says Peter Smith, the center's director, "but they are savoring more." Connoisseurs may eventually have more malts to savor. Several "silent" (mothballed) distilleries have lately sprung back to life. And next month Schenley < Affiliated Brands, an American subsidiary of Britain's United Distillers (Guinness), takes over U.S. distribution of six U.D.(G.)-owned malts. As a quick guide to the range of malt tastes, Schenley will sell them not just in 750-ml bottles but also in a six-pack of miniatures, complete...
...Sacramento's most colorful lobbyists, a glad-handing, shoulder-rubbing wheeler-dealer. Upon his father's death in 1963, Kennedy left a lucrative San Francisco practice and returned to Sacramento to straighten out affairs and eventually take over the practice. Though the younger Kennedy kept clients like Schenley liquor distillers and the state's association of opticians, he mainly provided legal advice and drafted legislation. In testifying before the legislature on constitutional issues, Kennedy came to the attention of California Governor Ronald Reagan and his executive assistant Ed Meese. In 1973 they asked him to write a tax-limitation referendum...
...escrow account entrusted to Cohn's firm was misappropriated in a "bizarre series of events," and that on his application for admission to the bar of the District of Columbia, Cohn lied. The most dramatic accusation concerned the will of Lewis S. Rosenstiel, the millionaire founder of Schenley Distillers. In December 1975, as Rosenstiel lay dying and allegedly incoherent in a Miami hospital, Cohn repeatedly tried to obtain his signature on a document naming Rosenstiel's granddaughter, her husband and Cohn himself as executors of his will. One hospital attendant testified in a Florida court that Cohn "tried to take...
Following the war, Gilbert remained in Washington as an independent consulting economist and subsequently joined Schenley Industries, his former client...
...whole. Besides its "full-strength" (up to 75 proof) cocktails such as tequila sunrises and mai tais, Heublein is also marketing drinks with less punch (as low as 25 proof) but more in the way of vivid color: the Pink Squirrel, for instance, could be taken for Pepto-Bismol. Schenley is bidding for a share of the premixed market with a new line of twelve drinks-including an apricot sour...