December 12, 1968 –
Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
After a long and well enjoyed life, Tallulah Bankhead died in St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City of double pneumonia, complicated by emphysema and malnutrition, on this date.
Her last coherent words reportedly were “Codeine… bourbon.” (I absolutely will be stealing that, except substituting gin for bourbon at the end.)
The Haus of Dcaligari 