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Voice of Experience. In Rochester, N.Y. the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court upheld the judge's decision against Mrs. Florence White's damage suit for injuries suffered in a fall, agreeing that "she might expect a barroom floor to be wet on Christmas...
...Best Friend. In Howell, Mich., the burglars who broke into the American Legion Club set a two-gallon crock of pig hocks on the barroom floor, rifled the place while the watchdog feasted...
...dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman's uninhibited propensity for barroom fights...
There were some 25 minutes of penalties called during the contest, but referee Cleary did a creditable job in keeping the game out of the "barroom brawl" category...
Bobbed Hair & Bare Facts. But Prohibition (1920) dried up the Police Gazette's barroom circulation, and in 1922 it lost most of its barbershop trade when women invaded man's next-to-last retreat from womankind to have their hair bobbed. In 1932, ten years after Fox's death, the Police Gazette folded. Revived by Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey, a Methodist minister's daughter, as a magazine frankly and exclusively devoted to sex. the Gazette was sold in 1935 to Publisher Roswell. When the Post Office suspended his mailing privileges in 1942 for one year...