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After the speechmaking, a corps of 40 uniformed guides took guests on a tour of. the labor palace. They saw a 472-seat auditorium decorated in 23-karat gold leaf and equipped for CinemaScope and Vista-Vision, a walnut-paneled conference room with a large pear-shaped table, an executives' dining room with television and canned music, a coffee room, private shower baths for top officials, wood-paneled offices for all bigwigs. There were oil paintings, lobbies walled in Aurisina Fiorito marble, ashtrays costing $7.50 apiece on the conference tables, and bronze boxes for outgoing mail ($17.50 apiece...
...African Lion (Disney; Buena Vista), the third of Walt Disney's full-length True-Life Adventures, does not sing a song of biology as stirringly as The Living Desert, but it is still one of the best movies ever made about Africa. With able use of the telephoto lens, along with plenty of patient scrounging around in the underbrush, Cameraman Alfred Milotte and his wife Elma have managed to sit the moviegoer a little nearer front and center than he has ever sat before at the greatest wild animal show on earth. The best bits...
...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...
...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...
...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...