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Self, son of a Pimlico barkeep, is always a step behind his Yank associates. He doesn't have their slippery finish; he doesn't live on the sharp end, which means always flying first class and riding in stretch limos known as Autocrats. Slick's library consists of about 13 titles: Home Tax Guide, Treasure Island, The Usurers, Timon of Athens, Consortium, Our Mutual Friend, Buy Buy Buy, Silas Marner, Success!, The Pardoner's Tale, Confessions of a Bailiff, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and The Amethyst Inheritance. When a woman refuses him until he has read Animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One More Fat Englishman Money: a Suicide Note | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

American strength rests on this miracle of food. Without it Carter might be hoeing peanut plants for the Queen and Kennedy might be a barkeep in Ireland. While we falter in other global competition, this season the U.S. harvest of corn, soybeans, wheat and other grains will humble even mythology. The Soviets know. With tensions high over the troops in Cuba, Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland was not sure Moscow's grain negotiators would even show up a few days ago to review purchases. They did, and signaled that they would buy 25 million metric tons of grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Where the Real Gold Is Mined | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Jody Powell counterattacked with an 8,000-word, 33-page denial that must be one of the more bizarre official documents ever to emerge from the White House. Among the supporting evidence was the transcript of a lengthy deposition taken by a White House lawyer from the saloon's barkeep, Daniel V. Marshall III. Marshall's recollection was that Jordan had been besieged: "Girls [were] coming up to Hamilton and woowoo, you know what I mean?" Eventually, the bartender said, Jordan "did say something to the point where enough's enough. I think one of the girls got insulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tribulations of Harried Ham | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...Patrick's Day is a socialist scheme to subvert American youth), but he had a good point. If you're going to spend your life, or even the better part of a Saturday night, trying to keep your balance atop a barstool, there's nothing like a pugnosed barkeep with a brogue to keep you company. It may be hereditary (no one, not even Captain Kangaroo, has fully explored the properties of green genes), ethnocultural (Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the noted ethnicist and cream-pie connoisseur, spent a good part of his early life treading the boards at his mother...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Behind the Green Bar | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

...mind of a philosopher (for dealing with drunks at midnight, and their wives at 3 a.m.) and the soul of a poet (for writing dirty limericks). The Irish obviously have a tremendous cultural advantage in all of these field; William Butler Yeats, sources say, would have made a phenomenal barkeep if he'd been about 25 pounds heavier. As it is, the average Gaelic male has just the right blend of good humor and patience to excel in the field. (In my own day, for instance, I once let a customer drink two bottles of Worcestershire sauce before calling...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Behind the Green Bar | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

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