The Buffalo Club Deshler. It's a sunny afternoon in 1973. You're meeting Tony Bill and Paul Newman for drinks. Roberta Flack is on the hi-fi, and the patio is spattered with dappled light. You need a good solid drink. The Deshler, which is named for a WWI boxer named Dave Deshler (but of course, you knew that), is just the ticket:

• 2 oz Knob Creek rye whiskey

• 1 oz Dubbonet Rouge

• 2 glamorous splotches Cointreau

• 2 vigorous shakes Peychaud's bitters

• 1 orange peel the color of Senta Berger's lustrous mane

• We pour ours over the rocks. It's hot out. —Henry Gondorff