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...Airborne Academic. Litchfield has now spent or earmarked some $126 million for ambitious expansion-and rubbed raw nerves all over town and gown. Spending freely, he has literally taken over the city's Oakland area, buying up the Pittsburgh Pirates' Forbes Field and the old Schenley Park Hotel, where Lillian Russell was married. He now aims to super develop Oakland into a vast cultural center costing $250 million...
...matters turned out, it was not all that simple. Under sharper questioning, he testified that the family's distillery interests had been sold to the Schenley Corp., in which he and a brother held $250,000 worth of stock. A rum-distilling competitor, A. M. Brauer, took the stand to testify that Paiewonsky had once imported Cuban rum and transshipped it to the U.S. mainland falsely labeled as Virgin Islands rum, thereby dodging $1,000,000 in taxes. "He's totally unfit for any position of public trust," concluded Brauer. Answered Paiewonsky: he had indeed bought...
Last week, two weeks of committee hearings came to an end. With the Internal Revenue Service's Alcohol Tax Unit clearing Paiewonsky of Brauer's accusation, with Paiewonsky swearing to divest himself of the Schenley stock, and with the White House standing pat with its choice, the committee approved Paiewonsky as Governor. The full Senate was expected to go along...
...stemmed glass. Among them, the argument is about the proportion of gin to vermouth. Recipes range from 3 to 1 all the way to a good dry 14 to 1, with the trend strongly in favor of more gin and less vermouth. Riding this trend, the House of Schenley last week was busily promoting the driest martini so far. Called the "Naked Martini," it is simply a straight gin, cut to 80 proof to make it taste a little less fiery than the usual 86-to-94-proof variety...
...took over the wartime market. Drinkers acquired a preference for the milder blends against the headhammering effect of 100-proof straight bourbon. To recoup, ; distillers have been lightening bourbon toward the minimum allowable 80 proof, which also cuts the excise tax and lowers retail prices. Such leading brands as Schenley's I.W. Harper, National Distillers' Old Crow and Old Grand-Dad, now come in 86 proof, one reason for the rise of straight whiskies from 9% of the total market...