Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast start because Brothers Samuel and William Childs got aboard two great trends of the 20th Century: 1) the anti-germ wave (they insisted that cheap food should also be clean food); 2) the quick-lunch craze (when they went into business there was nothing but the free-lunch saloon between carrying your own lunch to work, or eating at a leisurely, expensive "continental" restaurant). Periodically Childs ran into stone walls - as when wheatless, meatless days in World War I ate into its flapjack sales, and when the speakeasy era made its white-tiled, antiseptic restaurants look antediluvian to devotees...
...acquired about 7,000,000 steady listeners. Prisoners at San Quentin (their warden's name is Duffy) like the show so much that they call their jail Duffy's Tavern. The program contains some of radio's oddest characters. Duffy, proprietor of a Third Avenue saloon where "the elite meet to eat," never shows up, is merely a stubborn Irish character on the telephone. Another off-stage character is a man with two heads named Two-Top Gruskin, who once attended a masquerade as a pair of book ends holding a book entitled...
Poggenburg's Rise. Ed Gardner was born Eddie Poggenburg over a butcher shop in Astoria, L.I., 39 years ago, the only child of Irish-German parents. His father was an ornamental plasterer and semi-pro baseball player. Eddie's first job was playing piano in a saloon. He quit school at 16 because his parents did not want him overeducated...
Stubby, Ohio-born Earl Wilson calls himself the "Saloon Editor" and his job the "Booze Beat." For six months he has written the New York Post's "It Happened Last Night" (nightclub column). He writes in a refreshing, conversational style. Last week, he refreshingly wrote...
...Anti-Saloon League's 50th anniversary, 87-year-old co-founder Dr. Howard Hyde Russell clung fast to his optimism: "This country will be dry by 1950-and I will live...