Heavy Tweed Jacket today w/ some great Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. pics (http://heavytweed.blogspot.com/2009/03/arthur-schlesinger.html).

Definitely an icon from the past, Schlesinger had style. Schlesinger wasn't sexy but he would have been a great guy to go for drinks with. Anyway, some articles of interest.

On eating lunch with young healthy types in '87: ""I could not help noting the generational differences in diet. I had a martini and grilled double lamb chops. They had Perrier and chef's salad. I suppose that their diet is better for them. But mine is more fun. I understand the disappearance of cigarettes these days; they are poison. But why has hard liquor, the staff of life, yielded to white wine and, heaven help us, Perrier?"
Meacham, Jon. "Martinis, Steak and History." WaPo.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100402081.html

Kahn, Joseph P. "Last call for the martini lunch." Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2009/01/12/last_call_for_the_martini_lunch/

"Mr. Schlesinger wore a trademark dotted bowtie, showed an acid wit and had a magnificent bounce to his step."
Martin, Douglas. "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a Partisan Historian of Power, Is Dead at 89." NYT.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E3DA1631F931A35750C0A9619C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/M/Martin,%20Douglas