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...Together. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., cocktail lounge boss H. Greet sued the Miami Rare Bird Farm for $75,000 after 1) two parakeets he bought from the aviary "for Oriental atmosphere" died of parrot fever, 2) the county health department ordered his remaining 25 exotic birds destroyed, 3) his saloon was quarantined for five days...
Massive (6 ft., 240 Ibs.) Henry B. Krajewski of Secaucus, N.J. has a five-acre farm with 4,000 pigs, a flourishing saloon ("Tammany Hall Tavern") and political ambitions. Last week Krajewski, a black & white pig under one arm, a petition with 1,136 signatures under the other, strode into, the New Jersey Statehouse and filed as the "poor man's candidate" for President...
...edition of Who's Who included some newcomers. Among the entertainers: Jimmy Durante, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca, John Wayne, Mario Lanza. In government: Perle Mesta and Mike Di Salle. In fashions: Christian Dior and Jacques Path. In the Manhattan saloon set: Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley...
...Arthur, Ten Nights made almost as big a sensation as Uncle Tom's Cabin, quickly became the bible of temperance lecturers, was made into a play, set a whole nation singing "Father, dear father, come home with me now!" The lurid lessons of Simon Slade's saloon, the Sickle & Sheaf, eventually produced more laughter than fears, more vaudeville jokes than pious homilies. But their spirit lived on, to bring national prohibition...
Decoy. In Chicago, after an undercover man telephoned police headquarters to report that 40 men were playing poker and blackjack in a poolroom-saloon, Police Lieutenant George Mankowski raided the place with a flying squad, forgot to guard the rear exit, succeeded in nabbing only the undercover...