BOYCOTT ON CHAMPAGNE
<N.Z.P,A.-Ktuttr—Copyright) MIAMI. Dec. 12. A Miami restaurant owner is angry with President de Gaulle of France, and Frank Sinatra’s champagne drinking will suffer in consequence, according to the Associated Press. Sam ("Radio”) Winer has said he would stop serving wines from France in his restaurant as a protest against what he calls “de Gaulle’s anti-American statements and actions.” "This to just something I dreamed up,” he is reported as saying. “I think that if we put the squeeze on de Gaulle where it hurts—in the pocketbook—it will kill him politically. They’ll kick him out.”
Winer said Sinatra, a frequent customer when he is in Miami, would “feel the pinch” because he always drank a French champagne costing $25 a bottle. “Frank is a friend of mine,” Winer said, “but I’m not going to serve any more French champagne to him or anyone else.”
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31551, 13 December 1967, Page 12
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