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The gentle man from Kentucky

Stuart Maclean Ramsay catches up with wild Turkey's Jimmy Russell, roving bourbon ambassador, family man and true Kentucky gentleman.

People | 16 Nov 2001 | Issue 19 | By Stuart Ramsay

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