Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skirts may never appear on Harvard cheerleaders, but Scotch kilts will flutter in the ranks of the University Band this afternoon when the "best in the business" marches onto Soldiers Field to start the grid season with an "oompah...
Bagpiper Leigh Cross '51, who has never been in Scotland although he claims that he "has always been interested in Scotch music," will not be the only innovation in the musical offerings this afternoon. The Freshman Texan's University debut will be shared with that of J. Rosson Overcash '49, who blows the drillmaster's whistle for the first time...
...piece de resistance" is "My Untold Story," which is the intimate and revealing account of Benchley's attempts and failures to become contaminated by the sordid world of sin, sex, and Scotch. Fresh from a college "notorious for its high living"--remember this is Benchley's story and things have changed since then--he tried desperately to besmirch his unsullied life in such dens of vice as Broadway, Hollywood, and Paris. According to his report he remained disgustingly pure. But one wonders. Benchley could hardly have acquired his knowledge of the finer points of life by reading "Colliers" over...
...Babylon-in-Brazil in which their sessions had been held. The Swiss-styled Quitandinha Hotel sits in a fogbound mountain valley with little to see but man-made pools, lawns, terraces and a horse ring. Syrup-slow dining-room service had queered routine entertaining. Bar prices ($2.45 for a Scotch) dried up most sociable drinking. Griped Ecuador's Foreign Minister José Trujillo, worried about his bills after a revolution at home: "It costs $64 a day to live; it costs extra to laugh." Some delegates had derived their chief pleasure from watching (no admission charge) a red-white...
...monotony dissolved in a round of official parties. Brazil's Foreign Minister, Conference Chairman Raúl Fernandes, gave a dinner and a buffet extravaganza for 1,000 in the Quitandinha's Dom Pedro I room. Guests had chicken, lobster, 20 kinds of cake, 168 bottles of Scotch, and watched Brazilian women curtsy to Dom Pedro III, pretender to Brazil's non-existent throne (the party's cost: $5,000). This week, with party after party set for the Truman visit, delegates' wives would have no more time for bridge and letter-writing. After three...