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...marriage. Reporters interviewing the unhappy couple came away with the clearest account to date of the Manville marriage system. The trouble, said Mrs. Manville No. 9, began with a quarrel on the twelfth day of their honeymoon after Tommy had drunk two quarts of gin and a quart of Dubonnet at a single sitting. The trouble, said Tommy, was with Anita. How about wife No. 10? After the details of this divorce are cleaned up, said Manville, he might consider marrying Anita's twin sister. "I am probably very much in love with her. It wouldn...
Milk Punch & Dubonnet. Oscar's father was Jewish, his mother Episcopalian, the faith in which he was reared. He lived in Manhattan's 125th Street, then a fairly well-to-do residential section. For a few years he lived with his maternal grandfather, a white-haired Scotsman named James Nimmo. Oscar fondly remembers rising with Grandfather Nimmo early every day and sharing the old man's milk punch, which was spiked with Scotch. Evenings there was stout for both. At 52, Oscar's digestion is perfect, his appetite enormous and he drinks little...
...great name, but never let him get near the stage." At Columbia, Oscar got good grades in his law courses, played first base (he was too light for football) and then-fatefully-wrote some varsity shows. His favorite contained a fat part for himself: a comic French waiter called Dubonnet (acting is still one of Hammerstein's secret ambitions). Slowly, he began to dream of the theater. But he had the promise of a law job at $15 a week. Says he: "If they had offered me $20, I would have forgotten all about the stage. But they didn...
...Paul Dubonnet, wife of the aperitif tycoon, once noted as "the best-dressed woman in Europe," renewed her pistol permit in Manhattan. She has been packing a rod ever since gunmen tried to rob her in a cab four years...