Word: bourbonized
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...Rayburn lieutenant in the House went to the bizarre extreme of sending a case of bourbon to a boozing pro-Smith Southerner in hopes that the man would be too drunk or too hung over to go to the Hill and vote. (The plot failed: Smith men saw to it that the man got to the Capitol to cast his no.) Cracking down on liberal Republicans who had promised to vote for the Rayburn plan, Charlie Halleck at one point grabbed a Congressman by the coat lapels and literally shook him. The man staggered away cursing Halleck...
Life on the White House social front was just as active. At the first Kennedy reception (for 300 executive appointees and their families), there was a well-stocked bar in the presidential mansion for the first time in Washington's memory-bourbon, Scotch, vodka, champagne, martinis, and Cokes for the kids. Washington Star Reporter Betty Beale was so startled that she wrote a story next day listing all the shattered precedents. Among them: newsmen were allowed to mingle with guests, hors d'oeuvres were fancier than ever, guests were welcomed as soon as they arrived instead of waiting...
Died. Henry Morton Robinson, 62, onetime Reader's Digest editor and best-selling novelist, whose prolix portraits included purveyors of religion (The Cardinal) as well as purveyors of bourbon (Water of Life), and who confessed himself "delighted" with being called slick; of complications from burns suffered last month in a bathtub; in New York City. A protean penman, Robinson's nonfiction ranged from Private Virtue, Public Good, an anti-Rooseveltian treatise later reprinted in 1,000,000 copies after it appeared as a Digest article in 1938, to A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, an exercise in academic...
...papers and edged into Johnson's front-row aisle seat. It was just about the only solid evidence of his new office that Mansfield was likely to get. In his new role, or roles, Johnson will retain and pick up more titles and perquisites than a Bourbon king. He will continue as presiding officer over the Senate Democratic caucuses and director of party strategy-a job traditionally held by the majority leader, with an added $40,000-a-year payroll for office help. He was surprised and right grieved to learn that 17 Senators voted against this proposal...
...tight spot was Mrs. Oswald B. Lord of Minneapolis, who happened to be in Addis Ababa as the U.S. observer at a U.N.-sponsored seminar on "women in public life." As bullets whistled through the Ghion Hotel, Mrs. Lord recalls, "I sat on the floor of my room drinking bourbon, wrapping Christmas gifts and writing feverishly in my diary...