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Jarrell was known as "an industrious .and reputable reporter" when the New York Herald Tribune sent him to check a tip that a seaworthy saloon was operating off Long Island, outside the twelve-mile limit. Three days later, Jarrell filed a tale that sent thirsty New Yorkers, along with Treasury agents and every competitor in town, scrambling for small boats. Said an enticing, front-page headline on Aug. 16: WINE, WOMEN, JAZZ AND REVELRY TURN NIGHT TO DAY ON MYSTERY SHIP FLYING THE BRITISH FLAG...
...rough, tough National Hockey League, where anything short of outright mayhem is considered a fair way to stop a man from scoring, Andy Bathgate has earned his share of scars from slashing sticks and skates. He has the face of a Western movie hero who has just lost a saloon brawl. His upper teeth are the best that money can buy; he deposits them carefully in a paper cup before he goes out to play. "In Canada," he says, "you're not a hockey player until you've lost some teeth." In the rugged give-and-take...
...TIME'S reporting comes from the ends of the earth. Contributing Editor John McPhee, who wrote this week's cover story on Jackie Gleason, had only to pursue his subject a block away-to that upholstered saloon for the rented-Cadillac set called 21. Despite the convenience. McPhee's assignment deserves some kind of endurance prize, for he saw his subject in a gamut of moods: testy, comradely, hostile, candid, suspicious, trusting. Cover Artist Russell Hoban too, spent hours with his man, and sought to catch-in one portrait-some of the restless complexity of Gleason...
...moment of madness" and has never been turned on, Harry's is pretty much the same. In charge now is Harry's son Andrew, 38, who presides over the ancient photographs ("Best luck from Ernest Hemingway") and the swinging doors imported from a Third Avenue saloon...
Something to Do. Everyone in Hurley expects an occasional raid by agents of the Wisconsin beverage and cigarette tax division. For staying open after hours a saloon owner coughs up $500, can reopen next morning; for soliciting too obviously, a B-girl may be fined $200. While sin is rampant in Hurley, and the town's three churches are fighting a losing battle to save its wild and woolly soul, the community is not totally without law and order. An estimated $22,400 enters municipal coffers from saloon licenses, and Mayor Sam Giovanni is torn between righteousness and revenue...