Word: slots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specializes in old standards (Heartaches, And the Angels Sing), and as an extra fail-safe against boredom, Frankie Ross often makes joking commentaries on the lyrics. His gags may not be immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into a slot and is ready for anything. Ross also does a take-off on Baby, It's Cold Outside, turning himself into a jivey simulacrum of a Chicago mobster. In a rococo version of Ebbtide, the whole group does everything from bird calls to an imitation of the surf...
...elsewhere. They took a 16-year-old girl along with them to invade the posh Dolphin Bar, retreated in confusion when the bartender gently explained that she was underage. One African girl, sent to test segregation in the public toilet facilities, forgot to take the necessary penny for the slot. Another girl walked into the swank Ann Douglas beauty parlor and demanded "the works." She was dumfounded when they offered to serve her; expecting a refusal, she had brought no money...
Latter-Day Crusader. Ironically, John Patterson built his political career in large part on a reputation for enforcing the law. He was raised in wide-open Phenix City, where the gamblers and the madams catered to soldiers from nearby Fort Benning. Patterson played the slot machines as a kid, drank his share of "wildcat" whisky and, with time out for Army service during World War II and in Korea, turned into just another easygoing Alabama lawyer. But in 1954 his father, Albert Patterson, was murdered by racketeers 17 days after winning the Democratic nomination for state attorney general...
Thoughtful Newport grocers used to keep stools handy so the local tots could climb up to play the slot machines. Cincinnati high school kids came roistering across the river to take advantage of the whorehouse specials: $1 for the prostitute, $1 for the madam. When one statistics-minded citizen clocked the trade at New port's biggest brothel, he discovered that the eleven girls averaged a new customer every seven minutes from noon Saturday until 6 a.m. the following Monday. The town had its spattering of killings, but they were generally shrugged off as "self-defense." One Easterner...
Smith and Bob Schwartzman, who lost to the Williams duo of Clyde Buck and Bruce Brian Wednesday, will play at number two for the varsity, while Walter and Martin fill the third slot...