Word: barroomful
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...Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, who had first been smitten by Ceezee when he saw a picture of her and wangled himself an introduction. Before their marriage in 1947, at the Havana plantation of his longtime hunting pal Ernest Hemingway, Guest bought Ceezee's picture out of the barroom, for a mere 15,000 pesos...
...Kirk Douglas plays a weatherbeaten cowpoke with mighty few cows left to poke. He is a loner, a maverick with a fence complex: he sees fences everywhere and hates them always. When he finds that an old pal is behind one-in jail-Douglas gets drunk, tangles with a barroom psycho, and manages to be thrown into the same hoosegow. He proposes to hacksaw some time off his friend's two-year sentence. But the pal has been tamed by a wife and child, and Douglas makes the jailbreak alone...
Died. Franz Josef Kline, 51, a leader in Manhattan's stronghold of abstract expressionism, a rugged, academically adept Pennsylvanian who, after early attempts at barroom-scene realism ($5 apiece), found his forte in 1950 with the lunging black-and-white calligraphy (as much as $14,000 apiece) that won him permanent wall space in the U.S.'s great museums and some derision ("Chinese laundry tickets"), who explained his aggressive oils as "not the things f see but the feelings they arouse in me"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Other participants in the panel were Noil Staebler, candidate for Congress-man-at-large in Michigan, and Murray Seegar of the Cleveland plain Dealer, a Nieman fellow. Staebler asserted that when money replaces responsibility as the object of State officials' efforts, the result is "a kind of barroom government...
...wonders. "Yes," she muses, "but he wouldn't appeal to you." When the cruise is over, Berry-berry moves off with a box of the lady's baubles, picks up a schoolteacher (Barbara Baxley) on Christmas vacation, knocks out a few of her teeth in a barroom brawl, lands in the frost in St. Louis...