Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ward-the Loop and the near South Side-with grasping fingers and a cunning brain, for almost half a century. He had started his climb to power early; he was orphaned and a newsboy at twelve, two years before the Great Fire. When he was 24 he owned a saloon (with a dice game upstairs) and was edging into Democratic politics...
...Happy Birthday" is an epigrammatic field day for novelist Anita Loos. Like Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," the setting is a saloon: the Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar in Newark. Across the stage passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs, the tarts, the footloose old maids, and the young businessman out on the make. Joining in the merry-making--by cautious degrees, to be sure--is Addie Bemis, librarian, who swills three "Pink Ladies" and throws repression to the winds. It's the happy Birthday of her life...
Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10 p.m., Mutual). Saloon Editor Earl Wilson defends his new "book," Pike's Peek or Bust. Critics: New York's ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, Stripteaser Gypsy Rose...
Godfrey took many a detour on the road to radio fame & fortune. He made a "nice dollar" selling cemetery lots as "investments," played M.C. in a Chicago saloon, "supported by the first nude chorus in vaudeville," and did a hitch as a Coast Guard radioman before he ever stood up to a microphone...
...seen him broken open by it, saw him again four years later after the primary in 1930. "But it wasn't a primary. It was hell among the yearlings and the Charge of the Light Brigade and Saturday night in the back room of Casey's saloon rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the wall. And there wasn't any Democratic party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes and his shirt sticking to his stomach with sweat. And he had a meat...