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...Player. The John Lardners and their three children winter in Greenwich Village, summer on Fire Island, two hours away. A good drinking companion and quiet, deadpan humorist, Lardner is a cautious horse player, a brilliant poker player, and master of the "match game" at Jack Bleeck's newspaper saloon...
...their time, the Shelton gang had been responsible for scores of violent deaths. They were whiskey runners, saloon keepers and slot-machine operators. They fought the Ku Klux Klan, fought the law, bought up sheriffs. But mostly they battled a tough, boastful gangster named Charley Birger...
...Patrick Radigan's Hoboken saloon, the children's hour began at 6 p.m. He shooed the drinkers out and waved the moppets in. They perched on bar stools or sat on, around and sometimes under the tables to watch Radigan's television: Du Mont's Small Fry Club, WATV's Junior Frolics, and such. Creepers and toddlers were allowed to bring mother along. At 7, the barkeep swept out the bairns and let the guzzlers in again...
...racketing band music in the lobbies. It was possible to board an elevator in the Bellevue-Stratford without waiting. At 12:30 a.m. on a pre-convention morning, Illinois Delegate "Paddy" Bauler (who once made Chicago history by shooting a cop in the pants during a brawl outside his saloon) stared down the quiet sidewalks of Broad Street and said: 'We got more excitement in the 43rd ward at 11 o'clock in the morning when the guys is all in church." Delegates seemed to flinch at signs which read: ALL 48 IN '48 and KEEP AMERICA...
Like the corner saloon and professional wrestling in the old days, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...