Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, as a supplement to its May issue, FORTUNE pub lishes an analysis of Dumbarton Oaks by a group of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE editors. The gist...
Tommy Farr, battle-scarred, iron-jawed, onetime British heavyweight boxing champion, who stayed on his feet for 15 rough-house rounds with Joe Louis in 1937 got smacked with a $45 fine in a British court for breaking the nose of a naval cadet in a pub brawl. Farr pleaded self-defense, said the cadet had referred to him as a "third-rate fighting punk...
...play is not, as billed, "Owen Wingrave." It was originally called "The Saloon," and that title has apparently been dropped because of the American interpretation of that word. In England, where James wrote the play, a saloon is a large drawing room; one drinks his intoxicating liquor at the pub...
Grosset & Dunlap was not bought by a syndicate composed of Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club and Harper, but by a syndicate composed of those three pub lishers plus Scribner and Little, Brown...
...winter they have been written with no coal . . . and in the summer either in a cloud of wasps or (as in the summer of 1944) in a cloud of wasps and a nonstop bombardment by flying bombs. During the raids there was the ever-present anxiety that the local [pub] had been hit, thus cutting the last link with civilization. This anxiety entailed frequent visits to the local to check up on where the last bomb dropped, causing a serious loss in man-hours and a vast expenditure of money which might have gone into war savings...