Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nathan in late August, in a bar. At that period in his life, Scott was telling everybody the Truth. Eloquently. He was making an effort to quit feeling embarrassed by his intellect, overcome his shyness, and to really help humanity. So when Nathan offered to buy him a beer, Scott smiled brightly and said...
Nathan's face darkened. He seemed suddenly older. Scott lowered his head in the poignant silence. He spoke into his empty, neon-reflecting beer glass...
Scott's glass was full of neon instead of beer...
...Scott interjected. "More beer anyone...
...mogul who helped found Loew's Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; of a stroke; in Miami Beach. Schenck's life was a Hollywood cliche in itself. The son of poor Russian immigrants, he scraped for nickels and dimes on Manhattan's Lower East Side, invested in beer concessions and amusement parks, finally in 1919 had enough of a stake to join Marcus Loew in founding the movie-house chain that spread across the U.S. MGM studios followed in 1924, and Schenck, armed with such stars as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy, harvested huge profits even...