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...evening's first raid was on the Plymouth pub, the Tom Elliott. The Rev. Wilfred H. Mildon, a mild-appearing man, went in alone by the four-ale door (to the public bar) to establish a bridgehead. When he reappeared and gave the thumbs-up sign, all six parsons trooped in, 30-year-old Pastor Arthur Bird's black & white accordion braying deafeningly...
...Words & Ginger Ale. For ten days the six "Christian Commandos"-all hearty Methodist ministers-had been on an evangelizing pub-crawl in Plymouth. Their reception was not always as hearty as at the Tom Elliott. Said one of them: "Sometimes we're accompanied by a continual barrage of strong swearing, but Bird here plays the accordion so loud they can't make themselves heard...
Cocksure and belligerent as a Digger in his favorite pub, Delegate William...
...first big postwar musical, Big Ben; 2) the 125th production by Britain's Flo Ziegfeld, aging (73), arthritic Charles Blake Cochran; 3) a show written by a Member of Parliament-bung-nosed Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, famed as a humorous writer ("A.P.H.") and as a pillar of the pub...
...once-jampacked pub sat just two tweedy Cambridge men (one without an arm), two half-pint ratings from the Submarine Service, two burly noncoms from the Grenadier Guards. A tipsy ex-Tommy wanted to bet five pounds to four on Oxford and got no takers. A radio blared. Said Gus: "The boat race, it's dying out, that's wot it is. ... Trouble is everyone goes for football matches 'n dog racing wot they can 'ave a bit of a bet on." Actually the crowds were as big as ever, and grateful for the outing...