Word: seagram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some troubled drinkers think they are getting less belt from their highballs these days, they are right. Many liquor companies have been putting more distilled water and less alcohol into whisky and gin. During the past 20 months, the distillers of more than 100 labeled brands, including Seagram's 7 Crown, Four Roses, Hiram Walker's Imperial American blended whisky and Jim Beam bourbon, have reduced the proof from 86 to 80-without lowering the price or advertising the fact beyond printing the new proof on bottle labels. (Proof is twice the percentage of alcohol: an 86-proof...
...often abused agents of the FBI and the New York City police were basking last week in the spotlight of praise for their rescue of kidnaped Seagram Heir Samuel Bronfman II, the recovery of the record ransom of $2.3 million and the arrest of two confessed kidnapers. But TIME has learned that the investigation is still far from complete. There remains a possibility that a third accomplice, a woman, may have been involved. Investigators are also actively pursuing the theory that the amateurish conspirators may have intended to use the ransom to help finance activities of the Irish Republican Army...
There was another item of unfinished business, postponed because of the kidnaping, and that was the third marriage of Edgar M. Bronfman, 46, chairman of Seagram Company Ltd. and father of Sam. The wedding took place last week at Bronfman's 174-acre estate in Yorktown, 35 miles north of New York City. His bride is Georgiana Eileen Webb, 25, whom he calls "George" and whose name was Rita until he asked her to change it. She is the daughter of a builder and country restaurant owner from Essex, outside of London...
...closest neighbors, former New York Governor Averell Harriman, to remark, "They really ought to be shot down." The bride ignored such interruptions. Wearing a striped chiffon dress and large white hat, she skipped spiritedly across the lawn after the ceremony. The guests sipped Perrier Jouët, a Seagram champagne. And amid all the display, a family spokesman described the bride's sapphire and diamond ring as "large but tasteful...
Married. Edgar M. Bronfman, 46, board chairman of Seagram Company Ltd.; and Georgiana Eileen Webb, 25, daughter of a retired British builder who runs Ye Olde Nosebag in Essex, England; he for the third time, she for the first; on the 174-acre grounds of Bronfman's Yorktown, N.Y., estate, in a ceremony that had been postponed for four days because of the kidnaping of his son Samuel (see THE NATION...