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Died. Samuel Fickel, 81, oldtime editor of the Anti-Saloon League's official publication, The American Issue; of pneumonia; in dry Westerville, Ohio...
...keep my fingers crossed. If you've given a whole life to self-destruction, it's worth a half year listening to somebody about it-even if it's the most awful six months of your life." Did Lillian condone the tactics of oldtime, hatchet-swinging Saloon Wrecker Carry Nation? She smiled: "You get nowhere with smashing and breaking. The only way to carry a nation to sobriety is to persuade it to carry itself...
Coach Watson has no intention of relaxing. He will go right on telephoning his players at home on off evenings to make sure they are keeping training; he will go right on fining them if they drop into a saloon for as much as a short beer or a long telephone call. Anyone caught swapping small talk with the opposition during pre-game practice will get an automatic $100 fine. "We're not out to make friends," says Philip Henry Watson. "We're out to win games...
...period pieces to lend atmosphere, Bernardin opened a night club in the style of the wild and woolly West, complete with waiters in candy-striped shirtsleeves, banjo players and a suitably active, shapely and deciduous stripper named Miss Fortunia. Fortunia's act at the Crazy Horse Saloon caught on like a prairie fire. By last week Le Striptease was sweeping Paris from Montparnasse to Montmartre, and even seeping out of the city to enliven the sleepy provinces. "It's bigger than the cancan," exulted one nightclub owner...
Hard Drinking. Saloonkeeper Bilgray earned his fame by making the Tropic into a serious drinkingman's bar-an honest saloon that scorned chromium, jukeboxes and B-girls. Its sights and sounds were shiny brass, dark wood panels, man-to-man talk and softly whirling fans...