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...Goat's Nest and the other groups which divided their time between Cronin's and the basement of Claverly were carried-over hell-raisers from another era which Jim remembers: the years of prohibition. Jim Seniors place was up on the Hill between Concord and Huron Avenues, doing a brisk food business near the then-buzzing Harvard Observatory. Old Cronin kept his hands off the local moonshine trade, and Cambridge presented him with its first liquor license when the dry years ended. The old man was a fiery red-head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title...
...time when Cronin graduated from B.C., the U.S.S.R. was claiming that "Ali Baba and his forty thieves were still at work in the Mid-East," and that about half of its Lend-Lease allotments were being carried off by stealthy Arabs. Cronin went to work for the Documentation Branch of the Persian Gulf Command in Teheran, where he dealt extensively with the Russians. He had been educated at Catholic schools, and found that the Russian's actions "were the antithesis of everything I had ever been taught." At a time when most of the people with whom he worked thought...
...Cronin, who is now 38, says he takes things more seriously than he used to, and that the same is true of students who have been bending their elbows at Jim's Place in recent years. "These days, when glasses get broken, it's usually because of a waitress' miscue...
...menu at Cronin's has also reflected changes at the University. Straight Yankee cookery, solid meat and potatoes, have given way to "reversion to oddities": food of an "international tinge," as Cronin somewhat equivocally puts it. When oddities are brought from the kitchen, Cronin does not always know about them. Neat tenderloins of whale steak are lovingly brought in from the ocean, but Jim waxes unfelicitous when black-listed "oysters of turkey" find their way to the platters...
Food sales account for 70 percent of Cronin's gross, liquor the other 30 percent. About 1,120 gallons of beer come out of the tap each week. Cronin tends bar occasionally, and voices wise words for other bartenders: "Remain aloof yet attentive. Listen, but never give advice...