Word: hangout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lampoon, nested in its harpy hangout on Bow Street, is thriving, while the SERVICE NEWS, successor to the peacetime CRIMSON, puts out a 4-to-8-page issue twice weekly. Both will hold competitions this fall...
...Alphand had to find a way to earn her living. Her friends had long admired her repertory of some 200 salty popular songs. Helped by a group of them (Lady Mendl, Henry Bernstein, Elsa Maxwell), she began appearing at a French hangout called Le Petit Palais. Among Manhattan's Francophile intelligentsia, her nostalgic music was sensational. Man hattan's Liberty Music Shop issued an album of Alphand recordings, quickly sold 1,000 copies...
When they escaped from the Illinois Stateville Prison (TIME, Oct. 19), they hid out the smart way. With five other desperadoes who made the prison break they headed for Touhy's old bumping-off grounds on Chicago's North Side. Here was the ideal hangout: cheap hotels, row on row of furnished apartments, a floating population of clerks, barkeeps, nightclub entertainers, girls with no visible means of support. And Touhy and Banghart were smart enough to avoid the mistakes of other public enemies before them: they stayed out of the nightspots, kept away from their old underworld friends...
Died. John Thomas ("Pappy Jack") Doyle, 66, the most reliable odds-maker in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Jacksonville. For 30 years owner of "Doyle's Billiard Rooms," hangout popular with Broadway sports, he was an elegantly dressed raconteur with a prodigious memory, who got to know almost everybody from Diamond Jim Brady up & down, became the unofficial odds-maker of the betting world, a sort of one-man Lloyd's. Gamblers from London to Buenos Aires wired, phoned and cabled him before they aid their bets. "Over a period of 40 years," le once explained...
Paul Brown's unique farm system bore fruit. For eight years in a row the Massillon Tigers won the Ohio scholastic football championship. They lost only eight games out of 88, turned out so many players who later became big-time college stars that Massillon became a hangout for college scouts. Before Brown's regime, 3,000 was a big crowd for a Massillon High School game. The year he left, the school owned a $300,000 stadium (with enough seats for nearly every man, woman & child in the town), supported a snazzy 64-piece band (with drum...