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Focus and locus of most of Author Mitchell's studies is the environs of McSorley's Old Ale House, which for 88 years has resisted change just off Cooper Square, where Manhattan's skidroad-the Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead...
...transit gloria, or, as they say in New Haven, let's have another ale before we tackle the broader aspects of minority plebiscite...
...been proved that a fellow can celebrate a birthday among his new found friends just as well as back home, so said James Fowell of Platoon No. 2. The E Boys made him feel right at home in a short hour celebration Friday night over a few tankards of ale . . . No casualties were reported to date...
...weak and pale but that's from ale...
...remaining three weeks of the course go as rapidly as the first eight, no one will be ale to complain of the monotony. There have been, in the past, moments of impatience when we wished we could turn the clock ahead, but as the time for departure approaches, there are many more moments when twinges of--panic seize hold. Once in the dim civilian past we had doubts about living, eating, and working with sixty-four others in constant attendance; all that is gone--today we have much more alarming doubts about living and working without the sixty-four around...