Word: bouncers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is generally the sentiment at the bars that circle the Yard. The "don't let 'em get drunk" school prevails over the discipline of the bouncer and the bar stick in these parts...
Line of Duty. In Jacksonville, Judge Edwin L. Jones fined Nightclub Bouncer W. W. Standfield $350, ruled that Standfield had a right to toss a customer out of the joint, but that shooting him in the leg was going...
Glowing with hangdog good cheer, like a saloon bouncer turned babysitter, the U.S. Army bravely launched itself, last week, into a kind of ordeal by politeness. The first men of the new peacetime draft began reporting for induction, and the ground forces, by fiat from the Highest Brass, were duty bound to welcome them with smiles...
...Morgan got that way. "I was born at an early age," says he, "of mixed parents-male & female." That was 31 years ago. Some time after becoming a radio page boy, he changed his name from Henry Lerner von Ost to Morgan ("I borrowed it from a dance-hall bouncer"). Before he joined the Army Air Forces in 1943, his nightly jabberwocky, sometimes savage, sometimes sophomoric, had drawn millions of New York fans, including Fred Allen and Norman Corwin. (Says Corwin: "He is a great, great artist-better than he knows...
...Bouncer. In Troy, N.Y., four-year-old Lenore Gittleman fell from a three-story window, caromed off an awning, struck a 50-year-old woman, landed unhurt beside an infant in a baby carriage...