Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor M.P. Emrys Hughes, having heard certain disquieting rumors, had a question to ask of His Majesty's Government in the House of Commons last week. Was it true, he wanted to know, that shortly before New Year's Eve, 1947, two crates containing 24 bottles of whiskey had been flown from Scotland to ailing, vacationing Winston Churchill in North Africa...
When they found the whiskey they explained, a little sheepishly, that they had mistaken Hass's 1940 Lincoln coupe for the car of an out-of-state bootlegger. They were sorry for Hass, they said, but they hauled him before a county judge, who confiscated his car, his liquor and fined...
...white wasteland of Lake Success. Others gave up; one French delegate (ignoring all traffic signals because of U.N. immunity) spent his time skiing down Manhattan's Park Avenue. Even the U.N. bar was almost deserted. One afternoon, a silent figure joined a handful of hardy newsmen. Over his whiskey, he growled: "Thash the trouble with thish place. Not an Irishman around." Anonymously, he disappeared...
...three-man romps, in which he hurls the youngsters against the softer pieces of furniture like a couple of shrieking medicine balls, give him the best moments of his day. Sociable, in a non-Hollywood way, he spends two or three evenings a week over a home dinner, whiskey, and talk with one or two of his handful of close friends (closest: Richard Conte). He actively dislikes nightclubs...
Bottoms Up. In Baltimore, the embarrassed manufacturers of Gallagher & Burton's bourbon promised outraged customers an investigation; somehow, 3,600 half-pints labeled as whiskey had turned out to be straight city water...