Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charmer's Charm. The Sheraton Corp. of America hotel chain's cocktail lounge "Service with Charm" (principal item: nylon-gowned waitresses picked for looks, height [5'6"] and underpinning) had worked like a charm, said New York General Manager Gilbert Johnson. It had more than doubled liquor sales in eleven hotels and will be extended to all the rest with lounges...
Bowing to the pressure of insecure finances, McBride's tradition-laden Rathskeller will soon drop the final curtain on its beery business. Howard Johnson's has bought up the location and expects to have the quarters refurbished and ready for business by June...
This will be the sixth Howard Johnson's in Cambridge, but is the first to invade the domain of the University. It will cover the two floors formerly occupied by the atmosphere-laden Rathskeller, and plans are being laid to include a cocktail...
Talbot recalled later: "Bellows just kinda folded up on the ground. . . . They just threw him down beside the fire." Talbot and Johnson went on drinking. Finally the Klansmen dragged all three into the shack, jabbed a hypodermic into Johnson's arm, gave Talbot two jabs...
Bellows was unconscious, the other two only half conscious, but Johnson was able to remember what happened next. They were carried to their car. Bellows and Johnson were put in the back seat, arranged in a position which suggested that they were in an act of perversion, and photographed by flashbulbs...