Word: barkeeper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hasn't the West Coast got major-league baseball? It has the fans and the players to justify it. Those are the vociferous sentiments of Clarence Henry Rowland. Last week West Coast baseball took a long step nearer major-league status. For "Pants" Rowland, ex-barkeep, umpire, manager and scout, was elected president of the Pacific Coast League (eight teams, Seattle to Los Angeles...
Died. John Flammang Schrank, 67, Bavarian-born ex-barkeep who shot and wounded Theodore" Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912; of bronchial pneumonia; in the Waupun, Wis. hospital where he spent 29 of his 31 mailless, visitorless years in state custody, after being judged a paranoiac. Schrank regarded Teddy's 1912 Bull Moosing as a bid for a third term, decided to shoot him. Schrank's single shot was parried by manuscripts and a spectacle case in T.R.'s pockets. Despite his wound, Teddy made a speech that night, a fortnight later again felt perfectly bully...
...score of U.S. celebrities have gone as guests to Duffy's Tavern (Blue Network, Tues., 8:30 p.m., E.W.T.) and come away thoroughly buffooned. The buffoon is Barkeep Archie, a likable mug, strictly from Brooklyn, who shares the great American love of irreverent ribbing...
...human mementos of the fight already fought. The survivors came back unannounced ; Sydney did not know they were there until three battle-worn U.S. sailor-men turned up at a bar, silently downed their drinks and smashed the glasses. "You better go away," one of them told the inquisitive barkeep. "We're drinking to our shipmates that didn't come back...
...Tavern, sponsored by Schick Injector Razor (CBS, Thurs. 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). Others could be better spared. Since it started last March, Duffy's Tavern has made a name for itself as one of the best-balanced, most original screwball shows on the air. Archie, the head barkeep at Duffy's, has been so eloquently played by Astoria-born Ed Gardner that many a male listener has caught himself with imaginary elbows...