Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls and began to greet each other with "Forget . . but remember." Locked in the Allied Control Council's "top secret" drawer in Berlin is the unpublished and (the Council hopes) only authentic version of Goring's last message. To suggestions that the original be released to scotch the phonies, the Council has stubbornly replied: "We shall not spread German propaganda - this would be like oil on a fire...
...role wives play in their husbands' careers remains a sort of unfading matinee attraction. It is cleverly "human" without being even slightly real. Its little golden nugget of truth is heavily coated with all the familiar Barrie chemicals-romantic fancy, sentimental charm, playful humor, terrifying coyness and thick Scotch burr. And in creating plain Maggie Shand, whose wit and wisdom were the making of her priggish husband's fortune, Barrie was practicing all Maggie's guile on the opposite...
...individual VIPs who pay a flat fee for the general service. When the clients' star customers, big dealers and other sacred cows turn up in New York, Murphy gives them "the treatment." Usual ingredients: choice hotel rooms, choice train and plane reservations, choice sport and theater tickets, choice Scotch. Says Murphy: "Most people who come to New York on a business trip don't know what the score is. They want a lot of things, but, especially in times like these, they don't know how to get them. We know, and we get them." How? "Connections...
Murphy's connections are plentiful, but not as mysterious as he makes them sound. For the most part, they are based on reciprocity. Example: when he wants Scotch, it's not too hard to get it from the caterers he employs for clients' parties...
These waves of destiny (in oil on canvas by Painter Frederick Waugh) ornamented the delegates' bar in the U.N. General Assembly building and served as an inescapable reminder to statesmen who might forget over Scotch-&-soda that U.N. stands in the midst of apocalyptic forces. The picture of the waves was called The Roaring Forties...