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Tommy's Oasis, many another neon-lit saloon along Highway 90. Somehow, the political powers who ran Calcasieu Parish -longtime Judge Mark Pickrel, Sheriff Henry ("Ham") Reid, District Attorney Griffin Hawkins-did not seem to notice what was going on. But Editor Dixon, 36, onetime AP war correspondent and roving INS columnist, is no newsman to let bad enough alone. With the backing of Publisher Thomas Shearman, he ripped in after gambling...
Taste Tells. In a San Mateo, Calif, saloon, Steelworker Gus Erickson, who had cigarettes in one pocket and firecrackers in another, absentmindedly reached for a smoke, got the wrong pocket...
...Return of Peter Grimm, The Music Master, The Merchant of Venice), who through wise investments became one of the world's richest actors; after long illness; in Manhattan. Starting as a theater usher in San Francisco, he went to New York in 1889, first found work as a saloon entertainer, was later starred by famed Producer David Belasco, with whom he had a falling out in 1924, after which he quit the stage...
Whether Thurber's drawing requires psychiatry or not, a great many people, including New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, cannot get enough of it. A series of murals, executed by Thurber years ago in Manhattan for Tim Costello's Third Avenue saloon (known to its clientele as "The Chop House of Broken Dreams"), is one of the extracurricular features of the establishment. The late Paul Nash, British painter and art critic, once declared Thurber "a master of impressionistic line," comparing him to the early Matisse...
...after being awarded a National Safety Council medal for two years of safe driving, Truck Driver George Pratt went to a ball game where he drank eight bottles of beer and a slug of whisky, adjourned to a tavern where he tossed down two more beers, headed for another saloon, missed a turn, caromed off a telephone pole, was robbed of his medal, called the cops, was sentenced to ten days...