Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous old name will appear over a San Francisco shop window next fall. On display will be such elegant curiosities as a measuring tape encased in black baby-alligator skin, a champagne-colored leather-lined ostrich handbag, and a wine-colored pheasant-feather necktie. Inside the store, the rich smell of groomed leather will signal devotees of Mark Cross that their favorite New York specialty store has broken out of Manhattan and spread its wares before customers far from Fifth Avenue...
...doubt the new wealth and accompanying seven flavors of wine took their toll. No doubt the continued success of the Playboy parody brought an all-time high in complacency, and low in standards. No doubt nobody cared. All these explanations, however, only hit the surface. The real problem, deep down, happened to be the power struggle...
...heady and passionate concept of the international socialist revolution is difficult for some men to give up. Isaac Deutscher is one of those who seem to have taken to it as others take to wine and women. He still carries a torch for the Russian Revolution as the guiding light of future world history. A Polish-born Communist, expelled from the party in 1932 for political deviation, Deutscher is now a Britain-based historian and widely considered one of the leading experts on Communism. His three-volume study of Trotsky (The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast...
Adolph Lewisohn spent $300 a month just for shaves and took up tap dancing at 80. Before giving his famous dinner parties, Carl Loeb held dress rehearsals on the preceding evening-with real food, real wine and substitute, or second-string, guests. On entering Williams College in 1895, Herbert Lehman, who later became New York Governor and U.S. Senator, took along his private car and chauffeur. Therese, daughter of Fanny and Solomon Loeb, could not button her dress at 18: servants had always done...
...family Bible that recorded his birth date happened to be lost when his cabin burned down four years ago. That doesn't bother Magee. After all, Lyndon Johnson sent him special greetings for his 124th birthday in 1965, and last year he discovered the earthly delights of wine and cigarettes. With an eye to the pearly gates, however, he is afraid of sleep. "I'm an old man, you know," he chuckled before his latest birthday party. "I could go any minute...