Word: shor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When tax troubles closed his Manhattan watering hole nearly two years ago, Restaurateur Toots Shor, 72, seemed to be down for the ten-count. Not a chance. Last week the Runyonesque drinking companion to personae athletic, literary and political opened the swinging doors of a new bar across the street from Madison Square Garden. "A good saloonkeeper is the most important man in the community," philosophized Toots, whose jampacked first-night crowd included Yankee Manager Billy Martin, ex-Met Yogi Berra, former Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey and Basketball Commissioner Larry O'Brien. And what had the legendary raconteur been...
...going to be great," rumbled Saloonkeeper Toots Shor as he opened the doors of his new watering hole for Manhattan's sporting set (Toots' last place was shut down in 1971 for nonpayment of taxes). Bending elbows and ears at the festivities were some 1,000 friends and customers, including Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Ed Sullivan, Rocky Graziano, Frank Gifford, W. Averell Harriman, and Larry O'Brien (who held up a T shirt emblazoned: I'M A DEMOCRAT-DONT BUG ME). "Hello, Big John!" Toots roared as he bussed fellow Restaurateur Jack Dempsey...
...first to admit it. "Pavilion we're not," he says. Jimmy's menu is in keeping with the clientele the restaurant was designed to attract: steaks, chops and seafood for the New York politicians, writers and celebrities who jammed its ample premises (once occupied by Toots Shor's) on opening night last week. As the cop outside put it that evening: "We have the immediate world here." No small assets are the connections Davidoff and Partner Richard Aurelio made during their long service as top aides to Mayor John Lindsay...
...campaing was a bananza for the entertainment industry, the newspapers, and the FBI. FBI pictures were guaranteed a wide audience; Pictures of Hoover eating a 'G-Man Sandwich' at Toots Shor's were great filler for the Saturday editions; the FBI became a cultural ideal...
Muffed Point. At Toots Shor's, Lyons nods to Peter Duchin ("He's three months older than my oldest son") and sits down for precisely one minute with Ray O'Connell and Paul Screvane. On the way to "21," Lyons talks briefly about his work and public image. "People only think I'm a nice guy because I don't give them away. I don't think it's my professional duty to break up marriages." Occasionally he muffs the point of an anecdote, or scrambles a story's details. No matter...