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...Social Register and Dun & Bradstreet." In 1941, needing a place to entertain the "advertising manager from Seattle after feeding him a steak and three martinis," Browne converted a small office adjoining his agency into the Sundown Room, equipped it with a bar and attractive barmaid. Soon the Sundown Room became such a popular gathering place for Chicago hucksters that Browne could hardly get a drink in his own club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Cash Under the Gaslight | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Half & Half. In Woolwich, England, Barmaid Kathleen Kelly, fined $5.60 for selling watered-down whisky, admitted that she is a member of the Pioneer Total Abstainers League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 4, 1960 | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...healthy. The grin may be twisted, but the mind is not, and it is hard to believe that once the fellow gets his divorce and has a few drinks to steady himself, he will still be able to see the Devil's jigging hoofs instead of the barmaid's dimpled knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Sex Necessary? | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

FLORIDE CALHOUN was a proud and fiery Charleston aristocrat, and her Southern pride may well have cost John C. Calhoun the presidency. When Peggy O'Neill ("The Gorgeous Hussy") Eaton, the Irish barmaid who had married the Secretary of War, came calling, she was received by Mrs. Calhoun "with civility," but the call was never returned. President Andrew Jackson himself, the story goes, begged Floride to return the call in the interest of peace and protocol, but she disdainfully asked her butler to show him the door. The trifling spat widened the political rift between Jackson and his Vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Before justice of a sort catches up with the feckless Oliver, he either seduces or proves irresistible to: 1) his father's gardener's daughter, 2) a blowzy barmaid, 3) a golddigger, 4) a bohemian nymphomaniac, 5) his elder brother's fiancée. Oliver may be just a crazy mixed-up cad to the reader, but in a fatuously psychiatrical reconciliation scene, Oliver's father shoulders the blame: "I think perhaps you represented to me the little daughter I never had and always longed for." A Sunnylands Granger would have the answer to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crazy Mixed-Up Cad | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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