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...LAMPOST REUNION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Charred by Life | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

That is the essential theme of Lampost Reunion by Louis La Russo II, and it is a first play of some consequence. The reunion is in a bar. The hero is Fred Santoro (Gabriel Dell), whose career and fame resemble Frank Sinatra's. He and his henchman (George Pollock) drift into a haunt that Santoro shared with a gang of cronies (mostly Hoboken, N.J., Italian-Americans) some 20 years before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Charred by Life | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...implied that he would chase inebriation around the lampost, and even deeper than the gutter. "We work underground, but we work just the same," he said, refusing to outline his methods of combatting the evils of drink...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Water Holes Turn to Reddish Wine As Dealers Take Pot Running Over | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...Square Deal Association, a group of undergraduates attempting to pay back the scrubwomen involved in the recent Widener Library "scandal", were halted temporarily in their publicity work on Saturday when police from the Brattle Square station seized a poster and a bucket that the members had placed on a lampost on Massachusetts Avenue and took the articles to the station-house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Seize Poster and Bucket Placed on Lampost by the Harvard Square Deal Association--Recalls Cohen Incident | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...dance which it is going to give for the purposes of raising funds for the scrubwomen and has placed posters and buckets all over Cambridge in giving the affair publicity. One of the buckets, evidently one in which sympathizers were to throw their contributions, was hung on a lampost on Massachusetts Avenue, not far from Walter Hastings Hall. Captain M. J. Brennan, of the Cambridge station ordered two of his subordinates to seize the bucket and the poster in accordance with a city ordinance that prohibits the posting of advertisements on lamposts, telephone poles, and the like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Seize Poster and Bucket Placed on Lampost by the Harvard Square Deal Association--Recalls Cohen Incident | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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