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...name at least, to the most assiduous tourist and most casual habitué. These were: Flossie Martin, plump, china-cheeked ex-show girl; Kiki, black-haired, impish French painters' model; Nina Hamnett, English painter and expert on sailors' chanteys; Jimmy Charters, ruddy-faced and unfailingly genial barman. The four were not friends, were in fact rather rivals, each ruling a separate coterie-the ladies at their tables at the Dome, Rotonde or Select, Jimmy at whatever bar he happened to be tending at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barman to Barflies | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...rehashing of minor and well-chewed-over material-the renamings of expatriate celebrities (Harold Stearns, Nancy Cunard, Homer Bevans, Ford Madox Ford), the retelling of the pranks, suicides, brawls that made up the life of the Quarter-were it not for the fact that Jimmy was and is a barman, and proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barman to Barflies | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Ingredients: 10 "states" of white Dutch curaçao; 10 "states" of English gin; 8 of grapefruit juice; 18 of French vermouth; one of angostura bitters, representing Maine; and a final "state" of absinthe, green as the forests of Vermont, dripped in on top of the finished cocktail. Urged Barman Beltramo, "Drink one and see the landslide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: World Pleased | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Dinty Moore's--Where the crowd heads after the game. Give your stomach a treat. Order a juicy Hickory steak a la Dinty. And later a Ronrico frosty frappe introduced by Joe, the Barman, an artist in his own right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swinging Around the Downtown Loop | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

...Gimme two nickels," he called to the barman on the floor. "I want to make a call." He went to a wall telephone, rang police headquarters. "This is Dutch Schultz," he gasped. "Send an ambulance. I'm dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Triple Zero | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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