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...view local fauna at the New China Club. Two young women who seemed to be inviting companionship struck up a conversation. A bellicose stranger suddenly intervened. "I was with these ladies." he barked, "and I don't like your butting in!" One thing led to another as the barroom tough shoved one of the women from her stool and hit Illinois Judge Robert Dean in the stomach, not once but twice. As the voices rose in anger, the police stepped...
...living his own life, Scott has often turned to savage punishment of himself and those around him. He has candidly called his heavy drinking "an addiction" and saloons, for their easy conviviality, "a very necessary part of my life." He has had his nose broken several times in barroom brawls. "This sort of thing happens to actors who have a reputation for being tough guys," he says in a defensive rationale. "There's always some guy who wants to take you apart. I'm not Marciano and I can't keep this stuff up all my life. I should stay...
...neatly suburban tuxedos. And after the service, they find themselves unable to go home because home is where every day reminds you that you're not the professional basketball player you meant to grow up to be. So they set off on a monumental weekend drunk that runs from barroom to men's room, from basketball court to swimming pool. And then Monday morning it starts out as back to work and home. But Harry ends up slapping his wife; Gus, a dentist, can't stand seeing his patients; and Archie was afraid to go home anyway. In a second...
...principals in a study submitted to the annual convention of the American Anthropological Association. That study is about to earn a Ph.D. and a professorship for its author, a shapely, 27-year-old redhead who, as "Tiger Red," recently completed a stint as a topless (and sometimes bottomless) barroom go-go dancer...
...grandmotherly proprietress leaned expertly over a pool table in The Corner, a barroom on the main corner of South Milwaukee's shabby business district, and sank a tricky shot. "This is a very conservative town," said Ethel Rapee. "People want things to stay the way they are. They don't like change...