Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short order, Cliff Rue (a salesman at his father's liquor store) talked four friends into ponying up $40,000 to start a service called Sports Information Results. The police tapped his wires for weeks before they were satisfied that the 50 phone lines Rue wanted to put to work were not the sinews of a bookie joint...
...rare, pure specimen of pre-Fire, South-of-Market Irishman, than of his Rembrandt. But local bluenoses denounce Dan and all his works and ways. After a sensational hearing in which his thirstiest patron blows the bluenosiest citizen right out of the water, Dan is stripped of his liquor license. The rest of the story tells how Dan is rescued from dry destruction and winds up in a saloonkeeper's heaven on Nob Hill. Like Dan's old tavern, the book is cluttered with all sorts of people-righteous madams, pining widows, pinko artists, lovelorn profs. It plays...
Captive Audience. In Pasco, Wash., arrested in a liquor raid on a nightclub, Adell Scott, 25, was acquitted of a vagrancy charge when he explained that he had been pushed into the club by cops rushing through the door to stage the raid...
...less food, less liquor and tobacco, less travel, more exercise, more leisure, planned vacations, more delegation of authority...
Cambridge Police Chief Patrick F. Ready yesterday termed the proposed law a "good idea," saying that it would "certainly help keep liquor from minors, who should not be getting...