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...Finest in the East," members of the University Band decided yesterday, was their own sobriquet, and not to be extended, even by implication to the malt liquor brow manufactured by the Crofts Ale Company...
...first, the soldiers soon rubbed sore shoulders with them in neighborhood pubs. Bert's Bar, a dingy shack in Smithfield market, set the tone with an inviting sign: "Bert's Buns Are Better than NAAFI."* Inside soldiers and strikers struck up friendships over mugs of tea and ale. The attitude: "We don't bear the boys any grudge; they can't help but do what they're told." At Smithfield's nearby mahogany-and-gilt pub, "The Hope," soldiers and strikers sipped beer together. Said a happy Guardsman: "It makes a change...
...rights to Mencken's A Neglected Anniversary (deadpan history of the bathtub, written some 30 years ago), and Mencken had a gratifying contract: in exchange for rights to the old hoax, the old hoaxer (who is a connoisseur of brews) was guaranteed two cases of Canadian ale a month for the rest of his life. Further, he did not have to return "the bottles and containers or other cartons in which such ale is shipped...
...apparently, did all but one of the 285 guests in the brown brick, 15-story, "fireproof" hotel. At 3:32, a switchboard light winked; a soldier in 510 wanted ice and ginger ale. Clerk Rowan sent Bellhop Bill Mobley up with it, and told the night engineer to go along for a routine building check. They had to wait in the hall about three minutes for the guest to finish his bath. They spent another three minutes in his room. When they opened the door again, the hall was ringed with fire...
...pictures also added emphatically to the general impression Saturday afternoon that Jack Fisher had played remarkable defensive ball against the Indians. The Varsity center made a large percent-ale of the Harvard tackles, and his play in the last three Crimson games has stamped him as one of the outstanding centers in the East...