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...Indians out a few times, but he soon learned that though they enjoyed meeting people, people did not always enjoy meeting them. If the Indians approved of someone they met, they would put an arm around his neck (much in the manner of Manhattan's robust Restaurateur Toots Shor greeting an Old Pal), and then just stand there, keeping the neck firmly clasped, for as long as half an hour. So for most of their stay, the Indians remained in the apartment. "We just looked at them," said Medeiros, "and they just looked...
...Shor's restaurant on fifty-first street in New York is the meeting place for the group known as the sporting fraternity. It is home to dozens of men who know sports, write sports and talk sports. It is a place which has the atmosphere of a club. As one of its habituees has put it, "I'd rather be standing outside of Toot's starving, than sitting inside Ciro's belching...
This is the color of the book. Through bits of dialogue, description, and quotation, Bainbridge recreates the atmosphere of Shor's hangout, telling of a man who judges people by whether or not he'd like to be with them at two o'clock in the morning, of a man who claims the only five syllable word he knows is "delicatessen...
...probable that Bainbridge has not been entirely objective in this book. Although he quotes people who say that Shor is an "egotistical jughead" who is as "phoney as a three dollar bill," the overall tone is one of towering admiration. If the book suffers from this one-sidedness, it is only to those who would want the man to appear as very few see him. Bainbridge's work is not a black and white one. Rather, it shows Shor as a genial operative whom a let of people like...
...technique is good: a statement about the man, a quotation from a friend or an enemy and then an example to prove the point. The descriptive incidents are well chosen, and the striuging together is light and easy. Toots Shor is a New York Character and in 121 pages you know...