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...acquired about 7,000,000 steady listeners. Prisoners at San Quentin (their warden's name is Duffy) like the show so much that they call their jail Duffy's Tavern. The program contains some of radio's oddest characters. Duffy, proprietor of a Third Avenue saloon where "the elite meet to eat," never shows up, is merely a stubborn Irish character on the telephone. Another off-stage character is a man with two heads named Two-Top Gruskin, who once attended a masquerade as a pair of book ends holding a book entitled...
Stubby, Ohio-born Earl Wilson calls himself the "Saloon Editor" and his job the "Booze Beat." For six months he has written the New York Post's "It Happened Last Night" (nightclub column). He writes in a refreshing, conversational style. Last week, he refreshingly wrote...
...Methodist Bishops who wore a clerical collar, served churches in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Rome, Italy, was elected a Bishop in 1916. Since 1939 he served as resident Bishop of the Washington Area. A militant prohibitionist, he was once president of New York's Anti-Saloon League, was famed among Methodists for his forthright sermons, his uncompromising attitudes...
...Anti-Saloon League's 50th anniversary, 87-year-old co-founder Dr. Howard Hyde Russell clung fast to his optimism: "This country will be dry by 1950-and I will live...
This absorbing tale of a lynching opens one afternoon in the '80s, as two tired stubble-bearded cattle punchers (Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan) canter into the hushed, cruel, lonely street of a suncracked Nevada town. They enter a saloon In the whiskied twilight of the day, a native appears with news of an up-country rancher's murder. The whole ennui-soaked town comes to life with sinister vigor. A posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering...