Word: bleeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Percentage Player. The John Lardners and their three children winter in Greenwich Village, summer on Fire Island, two hours away. A good drinking companion and quiet, deadpan humorist, Lardner is a cautious horse player, a brilliant poker player, and master of the "match game" at Jack Bleeck's newspaper saloon...
...Bleeck's Artists & Writers Restaurant on Manhattan's 40th Street, one Henry George consumed at a sitting "six dozen Cotuit oysters, a two-quart tureen of mock turtle soup, a roast . . . weighing just under six pounds, four steak . . . slabs of cold Virginia ham, a dozen scones filled with whipped cream, three bottles of claret, 18 bottles of beer, and countless . . . rolls, butter, radishes, coffee, and sweet oddments." At Bleeck's too, Actress Helen Hayes found Playwright Nunnally Johnson "beating his third wife, whom he had married that afternoon, over the head with a silver-handled umbrella...
Evenings Maney makes the round of his shows. He seldom has time for other people's, has never seen six-year-old Tobacco Road. After theatre he drifts to a tavern, usually a newspapermen's hangout like Jack Bleeck's, where he guzzles and plays the match game for high stakes with his cronies, also gets in a word with dozens of useful newspaper people...