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Cambridge pub-owners were smacking their lips in anticipatory glee, and crowding barroom stools more closely together for the television fans...
...From barroom characters who had known Red Barker, Beshoar learned that there might be some trunks in storage. He got hold of the lawyer who was handling the estate. They picked up a locksmith and went to the warehouse. There, among a litter of old shoes, shirts, letters and miscellaneous personal belongings, they found a handwritten manuscript which turned out to be Red's version of the story of the Barker brothers' life. That made the death of the local bartender national news, and the story appeared in the April...
...says Frank, "everything's made for love." So why not toss a testimonial dinner for Sam, just to show how everybody loves him? Frank hired the main barroom and big banquet hall of the capital's Washington Hotel, sent out invitations to every big shot in town and a slew of industrialists, statesmen, bankers and railroad executives. (Winston Churchill cabled his regrets.) Once before, when Sam Rayburn lost the speakership to Republican Joe Martin, Boykin had wanted to do something for him, and he raised money to buy as handsome a Cadillac as the official...
Okefenokee Bear. Among the 900 guests that showed up one night last week were all the members of the Cabinet except Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec...
Lust for Gold (Columbia) is a feeble way to describe this movie's gargantuan appetite for adventure. In 90 minutes it wolfs down an Indian massacre, two murders, a barroom brawl, an earthquake, a fistfight on a cliff top and a mess of hocus-pocus dealing with the whereabouts of a fabulous treasure trove. Leading the sepia-colored scramble for gold are Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford. Kids under twelve may believe in their adventures...