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...July 1945, Harry S. Truman wrote in his recent memoirs: "I was seated next to Stalin, and I noticed that he drank from a tiny glass that held about a thimbleful. He emptied it frequently and replenished it from a bottle he kept handy. I assumed that it was vodka, which everybody else was being served, and I began to wonder how Stalin could drink so much of that powerful beverage. Finally I asked him, and he looked at me and grinned. Then he leaned over to his interpreter and said, 'Tell the President it is French wine, because...
...jungle give up some platinum and gold, first tested his luck at a race track, won a cool 9,600 pesos on a 100-to-1 shot. He also took his ease in Bogotá's elegantly stuffy Jockey Club, where he complained about the absence of vodka (he thirsted in vain for a Bloody Mary). Colombia's press hailed his expedition with gleeful gibes. Item: a caricature of Rubirosa whiling away his safari time by pinching a beautiful nude Indian maiden. Asked for his slant on honest labor, the Ding Dong Daddy from Santo Domingo yawned languidly...
...program notes for Anastasia point out that only Smirnoff vodka is used on stage. This is one of the few touches of realism in the whole play, for playwright Marcelle Maurette has written most of the lines in an allegorical exposition of Europe's reaction to American aid and a prophecy of Europe's future. "I don't need your pity now," Anastasia, representing the Europe of the future, defiantly exclaims, and Prince Bounine (America) can only stand with his mouth agape, as his materialistic plot is foiled...
They ate from 3 p.m. until 8, running the gamut of caviar, vodka, and all the other traditional ingredients of Russian feasts. However, since the bill for two was 400 rubles ($100 at the inflated exchange rate). Berman strongly suggests that you visit the Praga only with a paying friend...
Riding down in an elevator he disdainfully described the lessening of international tensions since the Geneva conference as "phoney as it can be. The Russians haven't lost any of their desire for world conquest. They're just smiling and sipping their vodka...