[1] After Heublein Inc. was bought by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1982, advertising was run on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, who pronounced it /ˈhjuːblaɪn/ HEW-blyne.

Steak Sauce and Smirnoff vodka; he founded Heublein Inc.[3] While hiking with his then-fiancé Louise M. Gundlach on Talcott Mountain, he promised her that one day he would build her a castle there.

[3] Most recent restoration activities include the installation of a white oak parquet floor in the observation room (known as the ballroom in Gilbert Heublein's day) designed in the same pattern as the original.

Due to anti-German sentiment in the United States during World War I, rumors circulated that Gilbert Heublein was using a spotlight on top of the tower's cupola to inform German ships of the location of Allied vessels.

The Republican Party asked General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for president there, an event which was also attended by Prescott Bush, father of George H. W.

[6] Others included Admiral Charles Nimitz, General Omar Bradley, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opera singer James Melton, and actress Tallulah Bankhead.