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...weeks ago, Churchill dined with a Tory at least 35 years his junior. Port and brandy flowed freely. The younger man was deeply shaken. Noting his expression, Churchill downed a tumbler of brandy, refilled it and leaned toward his guest. "Let me tell you something, young man," he said, waggling the glass, "You have to be born to this sort of thing and never give...
...Manhattan store advertised the "bottoms-up tumbler," a 2-oz. glass with a nude female figurine across its base. It was guaranteed to tip over immediately if placed on a flat surface. Said the ad: "You can't put it down until you drink it down-and the result is, of course, gaiety galore...
Bottoms Up. Shy, almost inarticulate with strangers, Hosford seldom leaves home except to go on summer cruises on lake freighters, whose captains are almost his only close friends. He sometimes brings the skippers home for sessions of story swapping during which he makes them drink straight whiskey by the tumbler...
Song Hit. In London, when Soprano Josie Fearon bore down on a high note during a BBC broadcast, a heavy, "unbreakable" glass tumbler shattered to bits in the home of Listener Philip Mansel, 60 miles away...
...attention turned to nine-month-old Prince Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus, the dead Prince's son and next in line for the throne. Only the week before, Prince Carl had made his first official appearance when he granted audience to a French envoy and accepted a gold tumbler. Said Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet approvingly: "Carl Gustaf acted with extreme dignity...