Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next to the President of the U.S., he has the most difficult and trying political job in the land. Three months ago he almost collapsed with nervous exhaustion, the occupational ailment of the New York executive. He spent eight days in Bellevue Hospital, began taking a relaxing drink of Scotch before dinner, went off to California for a rest. But he came hurrying back after four weeks to ward off a strike which threatened to tie up the bus lines. "There's no use kidding," he says. "You can't take it easy in this...
...office, a neat, clean desk. His wife's, eight floors below, has bright lime-yellow walls, a royal blue rug and a littered blond mahogany semicircular desk. Fleur dresses dramatically, sports an uncut emerald ring as big as a horse chestnut, talks fast and crisply, smokes and likes Scotch & soda. Both she and Mike wear black hornrimmed glasses. In their spare time, Mike plays tennis ("enormously good," says Fleur), while she paints...
...Groom Bob Topping. The welcoming just barely came off. Newsmen summoned for an interview were kept waiting an hour, then given a gentle but swift brush-off. "Probably the . . . most humiliating press conference ever held in Britain," the British Press Association called it. So the honeymooners tried again, with Scotch & soda and smiles. One paper quoted Lana's apology: "MGM loused it up." She denied using those words, but added: "They do sound rather American...
...student hecklers from the University of Oregon plopped down in the front row, diligently leafed through copies of LIFE with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
...party for Actress Lillian Russell), Arcaro believes in the durable dollar. His chief extravagance is clothes; he owns 40 suits, mostly conservative greys and blues. He drives a 1947 Cadillac, reads FORTUNE to keep hep on industry, and invests in such blue-chip stocks as A.T. & T. He likes Scotch, but mostly on Saturday nights. He knows what happened to some of his predecessors...