1946 The Stock Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe

Other variations are common and many 0£ them legitimate, such as the alternate devised a number of years ago by Steve Hannagan of using a dry sherry ipstead of vermouth for a particularly lethal Martini, and a drink thoughtfully named for herself by Rosalind Russell, the secret of which should be guarded like that of the atom bomb, but which she is willing the world shall share if she is held blameless of the results:

Rosalind Russell:

% jigger Danish Alborg aquavit % jigger vermouth or dubonnet. Shake or spoon and serve in the same ma~ ner as a Martini.

. Miss Russell's own comment on this arrangement is: "My father-in– law, Carl Brisson, introduced me to this drink and sixmonths later I married his son!" In a less heroic generation, however, it must be recorded that few demands are received across the bar of the Stork for cocktails until after the sun has cro~d the proverbial yardarm at noon. Public taste in restoratives, pick-me-ups and simple, old-fashioned drinking for pleasure runs more to longer and taller drinks and less to the concentrated essence of life to be encountered in co~ktails. As is entirely natural in such a highly individualized occupation, requirements for morning drinks vary with almost every forenoon drinker. There may be a certain or prevailing similarity of tastes at more conventional hours and the steward can count upon a fairly regular dispensation of, say, Martinis at ~llfchtime or Daiquiris before dinner, but the A.M. elh'ow bender is a Maverick, a lone wolf and there is no predicting his vagrant whim or fancy. If his innards require gentling and the virtues of nourishment at the same time, his requirement may he for a milk punch or fizz

21: Morning