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...Toots Shor, according to one of his many friends, "has more on the ball than Hubbell." To those for whom this quotation is meaningless, this book will have little interest, for it is a series of three articles, reprinted from the New Yorker, describing New York's most fabulous saloonkeeper and sports...
...Cincinnati. Smith plans to rejoin the group in St. Louis this Sunday, then play at Indianapolis on Monday, Detroit on Tuesday, Milwaukee on Wednesday, and Boston on Thursday in the final game of the trip. He will then fly to New York for a team banquet at Toots Shor's on Saturday. In addition to both teams, the troupe includes a few Jugglers, two Chinese acrobats, and a band...
...serious vote for the "ten top laugh provokers of the year." Among the winners: Vice President Alben W. Berkley (public life); Jimmy Durante (TV); Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman (stage); S. J. (Swiss Family Perelman) Perelman (literature); and, in the field of business, bumptious Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor...
...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...