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Publisher Roy Howard of the New York World-Telegram was delighted last week by a rowdy little cartoon turned out by his staff artist. Matt Greene. It seemed that the night before in a Third Avenue saloon one John Jones had taken on several other customers, wound up on the floor. Somehow a Miss Lucille Iorio had landed on the floor too, and Mr. Jones proceeded to bite her calf. The bartender then went into action and by the time the police arrived to take Mr. Jones to a psychiatric ward, order prevailed. Having no photograph of the man biting...
...universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk by opening a saloon, vents her disgust on a pious daughter-in-law by spoiling her grandson Tjerk. Best part of the story pictures Tjerk's rebellious boyhood, his adventures with his grandmother, the hell-raising activities of his brothers, family quarrels, a ceaseless round of weddings and funerals, his puppy loves-the period...
...poke, spends most of his time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife. What Poet Service did not mention, said Mr. Mahoney last week, was that the "lady called Lou" was also shot. She recovered, he said, and was two years ago reported living quietly in Prince Rupert...
When Portland papers printed this old Mahoney story last week, a local reporter named George R. Stearns ungraciously produced a letter which he said Mr. Service had written to him in 1928 in answer to a question: "I have no doubt that the Malamute Saloon was entirely imaginary. At this distant date, however, I have little recollection of the circumstances in which my notorious ballad was perpetrated, and my only regret is that I have been unable to live it down." An old bonanza operator named "Skiff" Mitchell had the last word. Sniffed he: "I knew Sam McGee, the fellow...
Behind Racketeer Flegenheimer, who was murdered in a Newark saloon, Mr. Dewey soon nosed out a notorious underworld lawyer, Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis. When relentless Tom Dewey announced that lurking behind Davis was the substantial figure of potent Tammany District Leader Jimmy Hines, whom he indicted as the policy racket's real boss (TIME, June 6), he made a real stir in city politics...