Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business Editor Joe Purtell, who has smoked little since corn-silk days, takes a cigar "when given to me," smoked two while editing the cover story (both were gifts). Purtell's favorite smoking instrument is his ancient, 13-in. churchwarden, now held together by tobacco tar and Scotch tape...
...Like sturdy tweed and good Scotch, the nanny has been exported to the whole world. From Brighton and Cheltenham and Tunbridge Wells she has gone forth in her sensible shoes to teach the English way to King Hussein, ex-King Farouk, Prince Rainier, and the daughters of the King of Denmark. So ubiquitous was her kind, in fact, that former French Premier Georges Bidault once bitterly complained: "Too many important Frenchmen have been given an inferiority complex for life by being brought up by English nannies...
...most of his proposals had he not continued to snub the old political hands and to make a big to-do about his cabinet full of novices in their 30s. Old politicos also resented his Eastern-style narrow-brim hat, his frequent out-of-state junkets, his preference for Scotch and soda over bourbon and branch water, his preference for Oklahoma City's Golf and Country Club and plush Tower Club over such spots of legislative camaraderie as the Capri Motel...
Piped Down. In Dearborn, Mich., arrested for punching a cabby in the nose and smashing his car radio, Francis McKenna told the judge: "The driver refused to tune in on a program commemorating our Scotch Poet Robert Burns...
...newer comics, from sickniks to social satirists, Joey stands alone. His wry, deadpan comments raise even the obvious to the realm of high comedy. At the Sands, in the midst of chaos and pure corn-Sinatra beating a bass drum that advertises his L.A. beanery, or Dean Martin drinking Scotch from an ice bucket-Joey can still be funny...