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...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...
...useful tricks of their tricky trade, Broadway columnists slip the names of saloonkeepers and cafe owners into their paragraphs. Last week in Boston, newsmen noticed that the name of Saloonkeeper Toots Shor had been mentioned by five syndicated columnists on one day. They hastily formed the Society for the Prevention of the Mention of the Name of Toots Shor. First resolve: to blue-pencil the name for six months...
...hucksters of B.B.B. & M. suggested a radio show for Allen. He shouted the idea down ("If you mention that . . . again, I'll have your entire agency barred from Toots Shor's!"). To the tune of As Some Day It May Happen, Allen told why he dislikes radio...