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...bill to designate the Missouri Waltz an official state song was killed by the Missouri senate after opponents had described it as a "low-rate, second-class barroom ballad...
When Campbell exposed the prostitution racket and its City Hall connections, racketeers lured him from a barroom and gave him a terrific beating. With his ribs broken and his lungs punctured, Campbell went to Tucson to recuperate...
Rehearsals are held regularly three evenings each week in the Hasty Pudding Clubhouse. The Kroks aren't quite sure how they manage to learn a new song; for awhile the Pudding barroom is pandemonium as members peek out their parts on an antique piano, cursing the over-enthusiastic arranger. Once the music is memorized, however, the rest is easy. Any Krok who has an idea or a gimmick speaks up, and the idea is tried. If the rest of the Kroks like it, it stays; if not, it is thrown out. In this way the final interpretation represents the combined...
...script leaves little room for love interest. Dorothy Malone, who ends up marrying Kennedy, hardly gets past the threshold of the plot. But Alexis Smith, as a sultry barroom singer with her lids at half-mast and her lips provocatively ajar, weaves more prominently in & out of the all-male hubbub. Eventually, her shady morals and mascara notwithstanding, she becomes the wife of Rancher McCrea. The highly involved plot in South of St. Louis, always pretty implausible, moves along at a fast enough clip to look convincing, and most of the principals are old enough hands at this sort...
Barreling Along. Holcombe, now 59, has given Houston more than flamboyant campaigns. He has given it good, efficient government. Recently, during a barroom debate about their mayor, one Houstonian acidly denounced Holcombe. "Yeah," answered a man with a long memory, "but how do you like those mayors who come in between...