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...knows, he would not have stood much chance. But it is November, the bitter end of the season, and the girls still to be found will settle for less, which is to say for Bert. He worms his way to the good side of a gorgeous and lonely barmaid named Bella, only to find that she has an identical twin named Nellie. How to capitalize on this embarrassment of wenches? Bert invents his own identical twin, Fred, who shares the special job with him and thus can only appear when he, Bert, is at work. He marries both barmaids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Matchless Malice | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

Besides helping them to help others, the course has benefited the bartenders themselves. A woman graduate who admitted she was once "the meanest barmaid in town" learned to be less provocative and more conciliatory. Recently she talked one patron out of shooting her husband and another out of wielding a knife in a fight at the pool table in her tavern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Therapists at the Bar | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...week salary and a $1,000,000 TV-movie guarantee lured James Garner (Maverick) back to the comedy-western business. Cast as a sheriff in need of vocational guidance, he emotes with accustomed facetiousness, his eyes flecked with fear and with understandable lust for the bosomy barmaid (Margot Kidder) who is the town's tease. The second episode took a clumsy swipe at U.S. jingoism and even Viet Nam (a 1914 cavalry officer notes: "Sometimes to save a town, you have to destroy it"). But there is a loco charm and potential intelligence ticking in Nichols that distinguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season: II | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

...traveling young gallants, Marlowe (Robert G. Murch) and Hastings (Tom V.V. Tammi), are told that the home of Mr. Hardcastle (Fred Stuthman) is an inn. What follows is a consistently funny set of etiquette violations. Marlowe mistakes Miss Hardcastle (Nancy Reardon) for a barmaid, the sort of woman with whom he is as raffishly familiar as he is shyly reserved with "ladies." Hardcastle is appalled at the monstrous liberties his guests take; they roar for drink and alternately interrupt and ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Social-Status Reflexes | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

...after arriving in town with his wife and daughter, Torres and a friend drove to a local tavern called the Linger Longer Lounge. He did not linger too long, however, for after a few beers he got into an argument with the barmaid, Hortenzia Escobedo, over the charge for his drinks. When she asked him to leave, the sergeant allegedly went to his car, took a .30-cal. rifle from the trunk, and fired four shots into the ground before speeding away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: Hero's Welcome | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

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