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...swipes" (weak, austerity beer). Four big London brewers, Barclay, Whitbread, Watney, and Courage had combined to make pub-crawling more cultural. In 1944 they commissioned some ?5,000 worth of drawings and watercolors. Last week an installment of the traveling Pub Art Show opened at The Bull in East Shean, in old times the first coaching station out of London to the southwest. Beamed brilliant, bibulous old portraitist Augustus John: "Artists have always supported the brewery industry. Now we are getting a little reciprocity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Reciprocity | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...Shean watched the first rounds of the London blitz from a sunken road near Gravesend. While the Nazi bombers came over in formations of 30, a suburban bus drew up. "All hell seemed to have broken loose in the air above and all around us, "but the bus conductor sat quietly totting up his receipts. The guard told a story: "There was a bloody monkey hanging by his bloody tail in the jungle . .. and along came a bloody air-raid warden. One monkey says to the other monkey, 'Look out, Jock, here's this bloody bastard comin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home to the Wars | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

Married (for 50 years). Al Shean, 72, Bowery-voiced comic favorite in the old-time vaudeville team of (Positively) Mr. Gallagher and (Absolutely) Mr. Shean, uncle of the Marx Brothers; and Mrs. Johanna Shean, 70; celebrated in Manhattan a week after Comedian Shean observed his 60th year on the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

Hans I. Carstein Jr., Edward L. Cutter, Clarence D. Martin Jr., Lewis H. Norcott, David W. Shean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALES OF MIL. SCI., NAVAL R.O.T.C. CAMPS | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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