Shirley Temple Cocktail (1946)

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   OED has 1966 for the Shirley Temple cocktail.  Merriam-Webster's 11th
doesn't have it.
   The "Shirley Temple" (a non-alcoholic cocktail) was supposedly invented at
the Brown Derby in the 1930s, but who knows for sure?  I'll re-check it when
the ProQuest full text LOS ANGELES TIMES contains the 1930s and 1940s (in
about a month or two).
   Meanwhile--it's not later than this.


   2 February 1946, OXNARD PRESS COURIER (Oxnard, California), pg. 3, col. 5:
   Shirley Temple at Lucey's being served a "Shirley Temple" cocktail which
the management serves to kids and which contains pink syrup and fruit.

(From "Gossip from the Film World" by Harrison Carroll--ed.)