Japanese Whiskey and Ted Turner

The House Of Suntory

Rachel King | Town & Country | 11th May 2026

Japan’s oldest whiskey company was founded by a young Osaka merchant who noticed that European liquors were too strong and dry for Japanese tastes. In 1923, he set up a distillery in Yamazaki, which had a humid, misty climate suitable for spirit maturation. Post WW-II, the company launched a blended whiskey with the anglicised name ‘Torys’, positioning it as the drink of the emerging salaryman class (2,700 words)

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Ted Turner, Entrepreneur Of His Age

Thomas W. Hazlett | Reason | 10th May 2026

Ted Turner, founder of CNN, TBS, Cartoon Network and TNT, was “a bon vivant, Playgirl’s man of the year and a public embarrassment”. He bought backwater radio stations and failing TV stations, turned them into successes, and used the money from their sales to found new cable networks. His wild bets arguably freed American broadcasting from the chokehold of licensed media (1,700 words)