Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Copacabana is a Scotch and watering place for Broadway's well-heeled show folk, who come regularly to pay homage to such distinguished comics as Jimmy Durante and Joe E. Lewis. Last week many of the regulars appeared as usual, but among them were scattered plenty of newcomers: moviegoers of the '30s who had turned up because the name in the newspaper ads read ''Nelson Eddy." He had been away a long time; they wanted to make sure he was the same old Nelson...
...woman lying there in a great four-poster bed. She was Frida Kahlo, invalid wife of Muralist Diego Rivera and Mexico's best woman painter (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938). For her first public show in Mexico, 200 friends, fellow artists and critics had turned out to sing, sip Scotch, and applaud her delicate surrealistic pictures...
...plain Mrs. Bates, who was known as tia (aunt) up and down the west coast. Film Star Clark Gable once journeyed 1,000 miles out of his way just to stay at Quinta Bates. Guests liked to sit in Tia Bates's museum-like house and, over Scotch-and-sodas or pisco sours, listen to her talk. Her memory was long and her stories often spicy. Guests also found the quinta hard to leave (two of them stayed 16 years). Noel Coward once arrived for a few days, remained a month and left a 70-line verse eulogy...
Instead of writing his weighty opinions on women, politics and Scotch-on-the-rocks, Ruark is going back to reporting and expects to cut his column from five times a week to three, make it a "kind of global feature," reporting what he sees. From his base camp in Rome (where he will pay no U.S. income tax), Ruark plans to travel the world, starting off in Spain to fish and see the bullfights...
...Representative Reed is apparently willing to slough off the dangers of a deepening deficit to promote a popular bill. He continues to push it through Committee in the face of warnings from Eisenhower's Budget Director, Joseph N. Dodge, that a June tax reduction will scotch any hopes for a balanced budget this year. The Administration has renounced the pleasant myth that pared waste can end deficit spending. Now the House should take Eisenhower's new lead and reject in forceful terms Reed's cavalier financing...