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...pals, from Hail Fellow Toots Shor to Toyman Louis Marx, went flying across the Pacific for the misty-eyed moment in Hawaii. There, at Hickam Field, U.S.A.F. Gen. Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 56, leader of the first B-29 raid on Tokyo in 1944, was mustered out after 35 years of service. In the White House Rose Garden, with parallel pomp, U.S.N. Admiral George Anderson Jr., 56, the Chief of Naval Operations who planned and ran the Cuba blockade and then was replaced by President Kennedy, got a gold star (in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal...
...telephone in every room for a sense of history and splendor. The best of the current batch of castle-hotels offer not only the built-in magic of a legendary site but also the charm of Old World prices-just the thing for a democrat who feels, as Toots Shor once observed of millionaires: "I don't want to be a king; I just want to live like one." Samples...
Manhattan is full of blues in the night. Toots Shor, contemplating the thinned-out ranks at his bar, says ruefully: ''We're getting re-educated for drinking at home." Proprietor Billy Reed...
...driver was sore, but unhurt. This was fortunate, because he was only ten years old. The near miss with the train and the grisly accident with the truck happened last week on the top of a table in a downstairs room of Toots Shor's restaurant in Manhattan. It was the semifinal of a nationwide contest with a combination game and hobby kit that is beginning to give the electric train a run for its money...
...wheel and in tumbled the mob. At 3:15 the bar was jammed three, four, five, six deep, and the noise was like a rocket's roar. It was just like the old days. "Lemme hear them tills ring!" Toots yelled. To his eleven-year-old son Rory, Shor called "C'm on, little Toots! Drink up! Have a little booze!" A young Roman Catholic priest entered diffidently, and Shor bounded over to him to greet him with a hug and a kiss. It was "Father Bill" McCormick of Brooklyn, who had blessed the new restaurant for Shor...