Word: barkeepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, there was always a chance that a miracle might happen, and what a laugh it would be if a barkeep who trained on hops and did his roadwork in a Chevrolet were to win the world's heavyweight championship! So, one moonlit night last week, largely out of sardonic curiosity, 35,000 fight fans turned up in New York City's Yankee Stadium. No miracle happened. But ringsiders had to admit that no one since Max Schmeling in 1936 had got into a ring with Joe Louis with less fear...
Another account: Billy Patterson was a beloved Manhattan barkeep of the 1880s, who was felled one night as he left the Star and Garter's side door, by an unknown dastard with a blackjack...
That lug was Edgar Bergen, who 20 years ago, at 16, sketched Charlie's features after those of a ragamuffin Chicago newsboy, paid $35 to have them whittled in wood by a woodcarving barkeep named Mack, and since then has made a tidy fortune speaking his nimble mind through Charlie's lips. Bergen himself is professionally shy, so that the fresh guy, Charlie, seems a distinct personality...
Last week when Special Events Director Henry Dupré put on one of his daily street broadcasts for station WWL (New Orleans), he chose from the crowd Bartender John Barry, interviewed him at the microphone. Barkeep Barry answered the questions, signed off with an unsolicited query of his own. Said he: "I want to ask Marie Vicknair up in Reserve, La. if she will marry me. I didn't have the nerve to ask her face to face." At week's end Miss Vicknair told station WWL and bashful Barman Barry that she would give them an answer...
...Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 18, son of Wall Street's famed speculator, now recovered from bullet wounds received at his mother's hands during a Montecito, Calif, drinking excursion (TIME, Dec. 9, 1935); to one Evelyn Bletzer Sullivan, 20, four years a divorcee, daughter of a late barkeep and prizefight promoter...