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Behind the bar, clad in white jacket, was the creator of both: versatile, temperamental Artist Author Inventor John Vassos. The room he had created was more original than the spigots. The upper parts were of aluminum; the lower painted grey. Grey predominated, even in the hangings and the seat coverings of the modern furniture, although some of these were Chinese rose or black. Only other color: green spigot handles. One of the critics called the designs "irrational versatility...
...Honor to Unhappy Courage" represents a large oak plank on the seashore through which has been thrust a beautifully painted silver spigot. Several auger holes are cut through the plank, and draped over one corner is a graceful wreath of morning glories...
...unselfish partridge, seeing the chagrin of an unsuccessful hunter upon his return home, broke its own neck, fell dead in front of the hunter's home. A porcupine named Albino spiked apples with its quills, carried them to the cider mill. A hen after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting on it, turned it on, drank. A Maltese cat, with a harelip, whistled "Yankee Doodle." A cold cow gave ice cream. Jim. Pete and Dick, trout, were fed New-Year's dinner with a silver spoon. Copycat Mortison. Early this year it seemed Winsted...
...Jimmie Savo and handsome Jack Benny- and one extremely funny man, Herb Williams. Mr. Williams culminates his evening's work when, while playing the piano, he pauses to remove a sandwich from a trapdoor in the piano stool, and to draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot under the keyboard...
...name any name. The diversion of 350,000 gallons of pure grain alcohol from Philadelphia throughout the land was described as the Master Mind's greatest recent coup. In addition to being the upkeeper of its own 13,000 saloons and speakeasies, Philadelphia appeared as a spigot from which alcohol poured out to all parts of the country with a source of supply dwarfing even Chicago...