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...housewife in the Titusville neighborhood points out four whiskey houses in the block-long alley behind her home. What must be the largest Negro shoe-shine stand in the state does a brisk business in liquor. A factory worker estimates that there are 20 whiskey houses in a 12-block area around his plant. A hippie who works as a part-time mail clerk for an insurance firm prefers four smaller houses near the sprawling University of Alabama Medical Center -- they have juke boxes. But as for reliable estimates of the total number, one Negro professional man who, like...
...surprising that Winehead pays so much for police protection, and that the police are evidently unaware of the far more profitable whiskey house that one Miles operates right across the street. For jealousy among bootleggers and cooperation among police usually guarantee a certain uniformity in the relations between the two groups...
Louisville's Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. has never cared much for blends in either its whiskey or its top management. Ever since Founder George Garvin Brown began bottling Old Forester in 1870, the company has stuck to top-grade bourbons and to a Brown in charge of its headquarters in Kentucky's bluegrass country. Last week Brown-Forman varied the recipe. To succeed third-generation President George Garvin Brown, who is moving to the chairmanship on the retirement of his older (by six years) brother W. L. Lyons Brown, 60, the company picked Executive Vice President Daniel...
...been one of the Brown brothers' chief lieutenants in the one area where their taste is as sharp as it is for bourbon: profits. By sticking with such high-quality, wide-profit-margin labels as Early Times and Jack Daniel's Old Time Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, the company has prospered even in an industry dominated by such behemoths as Seagram (1965 sales: $1 billion). With sales of $154 million for the twelve months that ended in April, Brown-Forman distilled record profits of $10.3 million...
...Jack Daniel Distillery, which has been located in the same quiet mountain glen near Lynchburg, Tenn., for a hundred years. The Daniel output has, under Brown-Forman management, been doubled, though it still far from meets the demand for what some drinkers regard as the best sippin' whiskey of all. The company now sells Usher's Scotch, Bols liqueurs and imported wines as well, and Street's main job will be to look out for other likely acquisitions...