Word: salooners
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...hate to have to live with them-but I can't help thinking how awful it would be if my little girls had to go through a mob to be cursed and spit upon." Said a Negro bartender in Dynamite Jackson's Los Angeles saloon: "A lot of whites I know never got excited about this segregation thing in the past. Now they're red-hot under the collar...
...Gelding. This, fall Arlene will star in a new Harry (Reclining Figure) Kurnitz comedy on Broadway called Once More-With Feeling, to be co-produced by her second husband, Actor-Director Martin Gabel. She will still do both her TV shows, look after her interest in a posh Manhattan saloon called Michael's Pub, raise some cows, and try to get Cut Purse, the horse that she owns with TV Critic John Crosby,* out on the tracks ("He's been spoiled for two years. We had to geld him, he was so giddy...
...Tokyo, where he awaits a Japanese trial for manslaughter, Army Specialist Third Class William Girard, center of a celebrated legal case, sprang himself from Camp Whittington for three hours of AWOL bottling in a Japanese saloon, was placed back under 24-hr, guard when he showed up at camp again...
...when dozens of big U.S. companies clamored for space to peddle or promote their wares, Walt Disney and his businessman brother Roy O. Disney quickly upped their sights, raised millions by leasing plots to 55 companies. Pepsi-Cola came in to operate Frontierland's Golden Horseshoe soft-drink saloon; American Motors Corp. shows Circarama movies; Pablum recently opened a brightly decorated "baby-changing and feeding station" complete with a trained nurse who hands out free disposable diapers, safety pins, bottles...
...favorite saloon Porter was in the habit of gaining the attention of the bartender by calling, "Oh Henry!" One of his buddies suggested "O. Henry" as a good pen name, since he had certainly used it enough...