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Night Entrance. In Scranton, Pa., after being turned away from a saloon that was closed for the night, Francis J. Mann got in by ramming it twice with his car, thus demolishing 1) the front door, 2) a clutch of cuspidors, 3) half...
Within the past year or so, the OPS office has inhaled and exhaled administrators through it doors almost with the speed of an Old West bar. The murkiness inside those doors also suggests a saloon, for the course of the price and wage stabilization program has been erratic and clouded at best. Congress, in fact, would probably do better by closing it down, temporarily at any rate...
...Madrid, Dominguin is most likely to be found of an evening at Lhardy's-an early igth century saloon near the old Puerta del Sol. Here, amid a collection of poets, newsmen, critics, painters, sculptors and bullfight purists, Luis Miguel holds court. From Lhardy's, the court is likely to move to a restaurant for dinner, then to a nightclub to sit until dawn, serious and silent, sipping Scotch & soda and watching the floor show fade. From time to time someone will say something sardonic and there will be quick smiles of agreement. It is like watching...
Died. William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, 86, tub-thumping Prohibitionist, lecturer on the evils of liquor and presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket (82,000 votes) in 1932; in Glendale, Calif. Vice President of the Georgia Anti-Saloon League, he went to Congress from Georgia in 1919, served four terms in the House. At the age of 72, he was ordained a Baptist minister and continued his attack on liquor from the pulpit, this year completed a lecture tour in 22 states and seven European countries...
...solid citizens of Hadleyville are not so civic-minded. When the marshal tries to deputize a posse against Gunman Miller, everyone in Hadleyville finds excuses. Even the marshal's Quaker wife walks out on him because she is against killing. In Ramirez' saloon, they are laying odds that the marshal is dead five minutes after Miller gets off the noon train. Left high & dry in a town paralyzed by fear and morally bankrupt, the sweating marshal has to face Miller and three of his fellow desperadoes alone. Around this dramatic situation is built that Hollywood rarity: a taut...