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...blends. Result: Three Feathers was a top-selling U.S. whisky all through the wartime shortage-largely because it was the most available. Rosenstiel put on his greatest show of confidence by expanding. During and after the war, he bought the Blatz Brewing Co., put Schenley into wines and vermouth (Cresta Blanca, Roma and La Bohème), rum (Carioca), cordials (DuBouchett), brandies (Coronet, J. Bavet and Jean Robert), gins (Silver Wedding, Schenley, Gibson, etc.), and even set up a chemical division to make penicillin and other antibiotics...
...fifth day, a heat wave hit St. Moritz, forming pools of water on the Alpine rinks. Looking angrily at the sunny sky, Olympic Games officials called off several events. Not until the seventh day did anyone try to toboggan down the whole length of perilous Cresta...
...desperate jerk, he brought it down. Said he afterwards: "I still had two fingers of space between the edge of the bank and the runner of my skeleton-that's just enough." An inch more and he would have crashed. Six times he made the descent of Cresta Run's spine-tingling ice path, to win an upset victory and Italy's one Olympic gold medal.* Average time: 5:23.2 (average speed: 42 m.p.h...
Sport fans had their choice of 19 events, in which contestants from 31 nations would risk their necks and their reputations on skates, ski jumps and the perilous Cresta Run toboggan course. The experts were betting on Switzerland to win its first winter Olympics (Norway has won three, the U.S. one). More people would see the ice hockey and figure skating than anything else: a guest could watch them from his hotel balcony, highball in hand...
...Cresta seemed confident that the steam roller would not seduce...