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...happy day for the inmates at Luzira. Since it was McKerrow who paid the prison's pipers, he it was who called the tunes. He established an official clubroom in his cell to beguile the prisoners' weary hours with brandy, gin, whisky, cigarettes and regularly delivered copies of British racing forms. For a while the club kept an open stock of canned tidbits, but McKerrow soon had to lock them up because one dishonest prisoner took to pinching the stores. Each evening the select prisoners would dispatch willing warders to place their bets with local bookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: The Accountant | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...addition to the usual locker, storage, and office facilities, Weld boasts a large Thirty-Minute clubroom on the second floor, appropriately overlooking the river. Plaques, old crew pictures, and a trophy case line the walls, and massive fireplaces dominate the ends of the room...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Arsenal and Back in 30 Minutes | 5/22/1953 | See Source »

...first it was a rustle of clubroom rumor, then a whisper in the galleries of the House of Commons. By last week it was a babble of discontent among the younger Tories: "Something should be done about Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Muttering About Churchill | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...Club is kept financially sound by the 60 members who pay a $2 initiation fee and $5 yearly dues. From this the H.M.C. pays for their trips and for the new library and clubroom in the basement of Leverett House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improvements Beckon Skiers to Distant Hills | 12/12/1950 | See Source »

Getting down to first things first, Marie let it be known that since her current extravaganza was set in the clubroom of the Hasty Pudding Institute she felt that she was "practically a member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stripper Bares Yen to Sing | 5/25/1948 | See Source »

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