Word: shor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...
Picking Up $120,000. With that performance, Rocky got his foot in the door. Three days later, at Toots Shor's restaurant in Manhattan, a battery of publicity men escorted tieless Rocky into a room filled with cold cuts and sports reporters. He and ex-Middleweight Champion Tony Zale signed a contract to fight for the title on June 9 in Newark's Ruppert Stadium, Rocky's guarantee...
...foot-square Turkish towel and drips across the costly Aubusson tapestry rug on his bedroom floor. He sits down at his three bedroom phones (one gilded). There he starts the day's business. He rarely reaches the office before 2 p.m., frequently drifts home from Toots Shor's or the Stork Club after...
...Happy Sturgeon. When President and Mrs. Harry Truman honored Senator Arthur Vandenberg with a White House dinner, a casual spectator would never have noticed that Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor was numbered among the 90 guests. Shor, who looks like Gargantua* as a baby and who loves to greet his own clientele as "crum bums," was burstingly immaculate in white tie & tails, and acted as though he knew as much about the partitioning of Germany as Jimmy Byrnes...
...news was all over Manhattan's better bars; Toots Shor's was loud with it: Edward Britt ("Ted") Husing, one of the greatest sports oracles in broadcasting history, had turned disc-jockey.* Station WHN told about it in full-page ads in the Times and Herald Tribune, in big spreads in 24 other New York area dailies...