Word: barred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free food, shirts, laundry, bus rides and movie tickets. "Our Cuban revolution is very good," grinned Calalu Nistal, 54, as he checked into the luxurious Comodoro Hotel. "I never thought I would be doing this," said another guajiro as he accepted a free Cuba Libre at the Havana Riviera bar...
...Hyde Streets at the edge of San Francisco's Tenderloin and just a wiggle away from the city's sleaziest strip joints, slumps a scabrous nightclub called the Black Hawk. Its dim doorway belches noise and stale cigarette smoke. Against one wall lies a long, dank bar minus bar stools; a bandstand, just big enough for an underfed quintet, is crammed on the other side; stained, plastic-topped tables and rachitic chairs crowd the floor. The capacity, when everyone is inhaling, comes close to 200, and strangely, the crowd is always close to capacity. This week the Black...
...musicians we don't bother. We never walked around with big cigars and said, 'I'm Mister Black Hawk and won't you sit at my table, musician?' They can look right across the room when they play and see me at the bar and know the boss is working...
...ending. The old faces were fading fast; the place was soon overrun by roaches and call girls. The last big spender was a happy drunk from Kansas City who made his fortune turning out horror pictures for the kiddies. For months last year, all drinks served in the Garden bar were put on his tab, and eventually he broke the record rung up by Benchley and his pals...
Southern Methodist University's brisk, balding Robert Gerald Storey, 65, dean of the law school and founder in 1951 of the Southwestern Legal Center at S.M.U., one of the foremost legal laboratories in the U.S. Dean Storey, president of the American Bar Association in 1952-53, is a veteran lawyer who neither conceals nor advertises that he never got a law degree (he did not complete his undergraduate education until 1947). A small-town Texan, he got into practice by reading the law in books that he bought on credit, became a top Dallas attorney and served...