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Backstage, Rodzinski tossed off a shot of vodka ("I want to go out and get drunk!"), glowed about the undiminished loyalty of Chicago audiences. He still thought Chicago should be the cultural center of the U.S. (his ambitious campaign to extend the symphony to include opera performances was one of the reasons for his firing). But he denied any desire to exchange his present existence as a freelance conductor in Italy for a steady post in Chicago or anywhere else. Said he: "I wouldn't accept a permanent job if they offered it on a golden plate lined with...
...Olympia Press, had been reviewed in the U.S. (TIME, March 18, 1957), but had not found a U.S. firm willing to take a chance on it. But Bookman Minton says he was not aware of Lolita until Reader Ridgewell brought it to his attention. Said Rosemary, happily swizzling a vodka on the rocks: "I thought Nabokov had a very interesting way of writing, very, you know-crystalline...
...Have No Bananas. Turning up at Moscow's Hotel Sovetskaya for his first diplomatic reception since last summer, Nikita carefully nursed one small shot of vodka all evening as he toasted visiting General Hakim Amer, Nasser's grinning top soldier, and roasted "the imperialists and colonialists who try to rob and impose a perpetual yoke on the Arab people." The Soviet Union, "which harbors no such ambitions because it possesses all they have except bananas," said Khrushchev, "will not give a kopeck" to any joint East-West program for economic assistance. "We will help them ourselves...
...ordering a martini-once a simple concoction of gin and vermouth cum olive -today's drinker must specify whether he wants it dry, extra dry or desiccated ; with lemon peel, olive or onion; straight or on the rocks; with domestic or foreign gin (high or low proof) or vodka, etc. Ford, which started with a single model car, now offers millions of combinations of color, interior fabric, power, styling and accessories in its autos, could theoretically run at full production for a year and never produce two identical cars. Westinghouse Electric turns out 63 "basic" models of appliances that...
Whiskey Americain. Rosenstiel is not only betting on lighter, milder bourbon to take 50% of the U.S. market for domestic whisky this year, but hopes to sell it heavily abroad where bourbon is more foreign than vodka is to Americans. Musing over possible results, the trade magazine Advertising Age printed an imaginary dialogue in a Paris bistro...