Word: sundowners
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...only saloonkeeper in the country listed in Who's Who, the Social Register and Dun & Bradstreet." In 1941, needing a place to entertain the "advertising manager from Seattle after feeding him a steak and three martinis," Browne converted a small office adjoining his agency into the Sundown Room, equipped it with a bar and attractive barmaid. Soon the Sundown Room became such a popular gathering place for Chicago hucksters that Browne could hardly get a drink in his own club...
...Browne got 15 friends to invest $1,000 apiece in an expanded version of the Sundown, opened the Gaslight Club. He decorated it to resemble a fancy turn-of-the-century saloon in red velvet, covered the walls with paintings of nudes, supplied a ragtime piano player and free platters of cold cuts. The biggest attractions were beautiful waitresses in abbreviated versions of 1905 ball gowns. Mostly aspiring models and actresses, they earn up to $15,000 a year, are strictly supervised by Browne's pretty wife, Jean...
Making his Manhattan rounds, from a 9 a.m. appointment at Gracie Mansion with Mayor Robert Wagner, to lunch at Hampshire House with Prendergast and De Sapio, to a sundown session in Lehman's Park Avenue apartment, to a midnight dinner with Anthony Akers, perennial candidate for Congress in the rich, Republican, silk-stocking district of Manhattan, Bobby left no faction unfaced. His approach was friendly but firm...
...keep in selling trim, Myrick begins each day with a 45-minute workout with 2-lb. dumbbells and Indian clubs, plays tennis three times a week. He gave up smoking cigars in 1924, quit chewing them in 1959, and hardly ever takes a drink until sundown. Then he drinks up to five martinis, often takes wine with the main course and brandy afterward...
...Toward sundown, almost nine hours after the siege had begun, the bungalow caught fire. Shotgun in hand, Raymond leaped from a second-story window and sprinted for his car parked in the driveway. Machine-gun bullets ripped him down. Four innocent men and women were dead; five others were wounded. And the curse had claimed the quiet...