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...Patrick Radigan's Hoboken saloon, the children's hour began at 6 p.m. He shooed the drinkers out and waved the moppets in. They perched on bar stools or sat on, around and sometimes under the tables to watch Radigan's television: Du Mont's Small Fry Club, WATV's Junior Frolics, and such. Creepers and toddlers were allowed to bring mother along. At 7, the barkeep swept out the bairns and let the guzzlers in again...
...much of an innovation for Hoboken. Last week, Erwin B. Hock, New Jersey Beverage Control Commissioner, ruled that Radigan was licensed to run a corner pothouse, not a nursery. State law forbids the presence of minors in a barroom. Furthermore, said Hock piously, "Longfellow would turn over in his grave if he knew...
...House. In Hoboken, N.J., Steve Soss was quietly arrested for drunkenness when he entered police headquarters, put his foot on a brass rail, ordered a glass of wine...
Opposite Manhattan's topless towers, on Hoboken's Fifth Street Pier, the tightly phalanxed crowd was as agitated as an Agnes de Mille ballet, and every bit as chic. Before backdrops of exquisite luggage moved exquisite figures-Katharine Hepburn the actress, the Marquis and Marquise de Cuevas of the international set, and "Mile. Ciné-Revue," the Belgian beauty queen (not to mention a sprinkling of ambassadors and two Marshall Plan emissaries). Also present were Mr. Hamish MacGregor, Mr. S. Wodowski, Mrs. A. Haggerty. Many passengers received, instead of steamer baskets, food parcels for their friends...
...Hoboken Jersey Observer, bargaining with the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild, wanted to exclude 23 newsmen from the collective bargaining unit. Because of their "greater responsibilities," said the paper, they were professional men like doctors and lawyers and should not be in a union. Ruled the NLRB: they were not required to have a license to practice, and didn't even have to go to college. So they were just hired help, like the paper's clerks and stenographers...