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...SWAY OF THE GRAND SALOON by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN 599 pages. Delacorte...
...heiresses of Carry Nation are not giving up easily, however. National W.C.T.U. President Mrs. Ruth Tooze warned: "The shadow of the saloon is lengthening over Evanston. Soon our streets will be filled with drunks. Mrs. Mary Alice Nelson, a sympathetic teetotaler, pleaded: "Preserve our city, our beautiful city, so my grandchildren will have a clean place to live." The W.C.T.U. has organized groups to pray for a dry Evanston...
...less came to accept the idea of sin as inevitable until the Protestant Reformation once again demanded ruthless punishments. Another crusade, this one in the American West and aimed at the new Holy Land of the frontier, drew its camp followers just as surely. The sporting house and the saloon became the social centers of many an outpost and booming new metropolis from the Alleghenies to the Yukon; most splendid of them all was the famous Everleigh Club, a 50-room mansion in Chicago, where for $50 a night minimum, guests were regaled with champagne from golden buckets and fountains...
...Gabon's weddings." Highlight No. 1: Frank Sinatra, in excellent voice, making his farewell appearance-singing the songs he made famous and ending quietly with a "saloon song" called Angel Eyes. He barely whispered the last line, " 'Scuse me while I disappear," as the lights faded, and he did. Highlight No. 2: Princess Grace of Monaco, patroness of the evening, introduced by a nervous Gary Grant, her onetime leading man. Highlight No. 3: Pearl Bailey hamming it up in her Hello, Dolly! number with what may have been the highest priced male chorus line of all time: Sammy...
...rival band's establishment, and Machine Gun Jack McGurn administered a lesson in loyalty that left Lewis with a fractured skull. Suffering from brain damage, Lewis underwent years of therapy before fully regaining his speech. By the late 1930s he was back on top of the saloon circuit. A fixture at Aqueduct as well as the Copa and the Las Vegas Strip, he was traditionally joined by his audiences in shouting "Post time!" before each of the several drinks he downed during a performance...