Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henry's Hideaway opened without a hitch. Parishioners paid $5 each for membership in the private club, a card that says on the back, "Many people make Henry's Hideaway a happy place by coming. Others by leaving," and the privilege of purchasing beer or wine for $ 1, mixed drinks for $1.25. Father Jim, as Reynolds is called, anticipated the puns, so the first drinkers had to endure the priest's own pre-emptive patter: holy water on the rocks; Blue Nun; we specialize in Christian Brothers. The bar rolled merrily along until midsummer, when a sorehead...
...What, the girls at Harvard are now drinking beer...
...lite beer," responded the offender...
...every new product can be a knockout, like light beer or TV dinners. Of the more than 5,000 items that annually appear on supermarket shelves, as many as 80% are commercial duds. Last week marketing specialists who attended the World New Products Conference in Toronto tried to learn some lessons from an exhibit of about 900 less-than-successful items...
DIED. Victor Jules ("Trader Vic") Bergeron, 81, irascible, ingenious restaurateur who, starting in 1934, parlayed a tiny beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis...