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...made it back to the Owl Club despite the driver's reluctance to go anywhere. The party continued as the remaining members and punchees partook in what a guest described as "sort of a saloon brawl...
...hundred would-be Eddie Cantors-the Busby Berkeley approach taken by the movie version. (John Cook as the Headmaster of this particular enterprise is hilarious.) All the big production scenes-notably "Cornet Man" -benefit from the same approach. But imagine these guys dancing away at Fanny's mother's saloon on Henry Street. Posture?! They all look like they're going to fall over backwards. Not one of them knows a Bar Mitzvah from a bagel...
...only one bowling alley and a single movie theater (recent features: Blow-Up and Count Yorga, Vampire). In the 52 barrooms, where patrons like to gulp their 35? shots of whisky straight or with a 15? beer chaser, business is slow. Television has ended the historic role of the saloon as the workingman's club. Social life now revolves around the color tube at home...
...Auggie Busch, part-time beer baron and part-time baseball impresario, called the book a "disgrace." The reasons for the attack are unimportant. What matters is that one book could cause so many supposedly even-tempered men to exhibit a moral outrage unequalled since Carrie Nation smashed her first saloon...
Like Hopalong Cassidy sipping sarsaparilla in a riotous saloon, the entrants in the Clean-Air Car Race picked their way across the nation inhaling volumes of exhaust from other travelers. Their own machines were ingenious contraptions of varying degrees of purity powered by gasoline, batteries, propane gas or even steam...