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Word: vistaed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What's Happening?" The memory of the drink was not enough for Columnist Delaplane. One night at San Francisco's Buena Vista bar, he showed the bartender how to make Irish coffee.* The drink that Columnist Delaplane mixed (and reported in his column), packed a wallop felt far from San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Delaplane's Dew | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...weeks after Delaplane's demonstration came a startled cable from Ire land to a San Francisco liquor importer: WHAT'S HAPPENING? The answer: Dela plane had touched off a craze for Irish coffee. In San Francisco's Buena Vista bar alone, consumption of Irish whisky leaped from two cases a year to 1,000 cases, an average of 700 Irish coffees a day. Visitors from some 40-odd cities where Delaplane's column runs turned up in droves to sample the magic dew. The consumption of Irish coffee has become so great that exports of Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Delaplane's Dew | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...Star Jack Webb built an entire Dragnet around Irish coffee. From Ireland came Count Cyril McCormack, John's son, sales director of John Locke & Co. Irish distillery, to see what was going on at the Buena Vista. From the Buena Vista, Bartender Jack Koeppler made a pilgrimage to Ireland and was guest of honor at a luncheon tendered by Deputy Prime Minister William Norton. "I might have been Saint Patrick himself, come to throw the snakes out," says Washington-born German-descended Bartender Koeppler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Delaplane's Dew | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...part of the campaign. Joe Sheridan, who left Ireland and drifted to Canada, Hawaii and finally, by sheer coincidence, to San Francisco, cannot stand to even look at the drink any more. Instead of taking a place of honor he has been offered behind the bar at the Buena Vista, he works as a cook in Tiny's Waffle Shop, an all-night restaurant near San Francisco's Union Square. "Whisky and me, 'tis the sad truth," he says, "do not get along, whether it be in coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Delaplane's Dew | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...elegantly manicured, of course, when Gary pays some attention to a pretty French girl ("You seemed to be conjugating some very irregular verbs with her"). At the moment when Grace grants Gary that consummation he so devoutly wishes, the camera deferentially turns to the window to watch the Vista-Vision heavens blaze with fireworks, courtesy of the Johnston Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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