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...children playing melancholy hopscotch while parents, too poor for baby sitters, downed a pint or two behind the swinging doors. (" 'Ere, luv, you play outside 'ere, there's a good girl. Dads and me'll be out in a shake.") In recent years, some enterprising pub keepers have provided waiting rooms to keep the kids out of the cold, but even these fail to make waiting for Mum and Dads a cheerful affair...
With 15 priests standing by in a local pub to ensure fair play, Desmond and Joe tossed a coin for the nomination. Joe called "heads" and won the seat. But the question East Tyrone voters are now debating is: Did Joe win fair & square? For the coin they tossed was not of the British variety bearing the Queen's head, but a coin of the Irish Republic, with a harp on one side and a horse on the other. Joe Stewart, say the Mallon partisans, should have called "horses," not "heads...
...last month, in desperation, Lord Glenorchy picked the lock on a public lavatory in a Sussex pub and pocketed the contents: 18 pence (21?). But he got caught redhanded. In court last week. Lord Glenorchy was fined ?5 ($14) for his misdeed. Afterwards, reporters found him in his rooms wearing his regimental tie, as he boiled two eggs for tea. "I'm not a playboy," said Lord Glenorchy. "Having a title is not always an asset. Sometimes it is an embarrassment...
...Manhattan, reporters for the tabloid Daily News worked in relays to cover the dark-to-dawn activities of Actress Diana Barrymore, which reminded oldtimers of the antics of her late father John Barrymore. Because "my husband bores me," Diana began her evening by pub-crawling with an off-duty policeman ("He has a wife, two children and a Buick and must be nameless"). Returning home after midnight, she found her husband, Robert Wilcox, arguing with another rival named John McNeill ("It went on and on and I kept saying 'Shut up, boys, shut...
...Despite stern censure from the Church of Scotland Temperance Committee, brewers distributed double-strength beer specially made and mellowed for the coronation. But they indignantly turned down a Laborite's suggestion in the House of Commons that they stand every pub customer in the country six pints on the house on coronation day. "It's not practical," said the Brewers' Council...