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Today, whether it is New Amsterdam in New York City, Catamount Amber in Vermont, Abita in Louisiana, Lair Dog at the Tap & Growler in Chicago, Reinheitsgebot in Plano, Texas, or one of the 20 regional brews on tap at Cooper's Ale House in Seattle, the appeal of locally brewed beer is akin to that of regional cheeses, breads and homegrown vegetables. "It's the fascination with something unique and handcrafted," says Shelby Meyer, who writes a newsletter for a home-brewers' club...
Haywood Sullivan made a good choice. This man will be a good manager in Boston, and precisely for the reasons he has been knocked. You hear a good deal of talk these days about how a manager has to be a hard-assed growler to win. I don't believe...
...then there was the time that the Growler had his 79th birthday. The Growler was one of those dyed-in-the-wool ex-ballplayers from the Ty Cobb era who hadn't missed a Clinton home game in 60 years. When his birthday came around, the Clinton management presented him with a cake at home plate between the fourth and fifth innings...
...Billy Graham or Governor Wallace, in which case it would be legitimate. But not an unnamed Coloradan. It's like saying, with considerable truth, that a Californian growled: "TIME editors are arrogant, bumptious, and not early so sophisticated or omniscient as hey like to think"-the growler being...
...started rolling, but why is something of a mystery. Few people can "dance calypso" (there is no formal style) or sing it in the shower. In Trinidad, its place of origin, it was sung extemporaneously, first by plantation workers and later by semiprofessionals with such exotic names as the Growler, Attila the Hun and the Lord Executor. The lyrics might relate some back-fence gossip, reflect on the paternity of a neighbor or comment on political news. In Trinidad some of the semipros still sing, mostly for rum, at public concerts in "Tents" (often palm-thatched bamboo shacks...