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Into his soft-lighted pawnshop with its softhearted proprietor (Eddie Dowling) flutters, one day, a young girl (Joan McCracken). In full flight from a gangster husband, she has taken refuge inside a 16th Century dream world. Sometimes she dances, sometimes declaims, sometimes just dresses up like Queen Elizabeth. The gangster comes along to precipitate melodrama; other people, who have pawned their valuables, introduce humor, pathos, romance...
High Standards. Almost all the tramps do their work with one elbow firmly propped on a bar. Last week Harold Beckland, proprietor of Managua's Gran Hotel, decided to lay down some ground rules for the game. For the benefit of the scores of promoters who daily congregate in his lobby, he posted this notice: "Discussions of business deals involving less than $500,000 not permitted in this lobby. This is a high-class hotel." As a bittersweet note, Beckland added: "Credit at the bar-even to half-million-dollar operators-will not be extended until the first gold...
Some café owners kept their prices down but cut their meat portions, refused seconds on coffee and turned to à la carte menus. In Atlanta, a restaurant proprietor shook his head: "Every day," said he, "I stand in the lobby of the building where my place is and count the lunches going by in paper bags. There are more of those lunch toters every week...
Growing Pains. Proprietor Newhouse's happy cry was no exaggeration. The oldest West Coast paper in continuous publication, the Oregonian, first printed as a weekly, grew up with the Northwest-and helped it grow by leading the campaigns for better schools and colleges and new industries. Though generally Republican from the days of Lincoln, the Oregonian has never stuck to a straight party line, has fought for such Democratic measures as federal aid to education, opposed such things as the Brannan Plan...
Moriarty's was soon the Yaleman's second home. It picked up the na,me of "the quiet House," and class after class of Eli undergraduates developed a great fondness for the short, stumpy imitation English oak door, the sort, stumpy bar, the short, stumpy proprietor, and his short stumpy wife...