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...visit to London's Press Club. Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 60, became the first woman ever to enter its hallowed taproom, graciously acknowledged the honor by picking up a billiard cue and hazarding a left-handed shot. "Rather fun," said Queen Mum. while being snapped in an already famous photograph. After she had departed the Fleet Street sanctuary, the club secretary commented, "She was very expert; you can tell that she's played before" a supposition subsequently confirmed by a press aide, who classed her a pretty fair player...
...Neill's hero is Con Melody, an Irish officer of peasant birth who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War and is now an impoverished innkeeper and his own taproom's steadiest customer. Under the influence of booze and Byronism, he lives inside a gilded dream, that fools no one, of being a fine-born gentleman. He rides a thoroughbred mare while making his daughter a slavey; he sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade. His fiery daughter Sara, has a wellborn young American in tow, and when...
...long-smoldering hatred for his father came to an explosive boil two weeks ago when his old man took his car and $40 in grocery money, went off on a drinking spree with a woman. That night Marty and his mother caught up with the couple in a taproom, demanded the money. Marty's face turned white when his father snarled: "I don't have a cent left. We were over in Jersey and we had a good time." Telling his mother "I can't stand this any more," the boy got into his car, drove...
...survey the accomplishments of artists with such commonplace subject matter (called by the French nature morte, by the Spaniards bodegones, which means "low-class restaurant or taproom"), the Milwaukee Art Institute and the Cincinnati Art Museum have teamed up to assemble an ambitious selection ot paintings covering 500 years of still life. Opening this week in Cincinnati, the exhibition ranges from an unknown German's Cabinet with Bottles and Books, dated 1470, down to such later-day works as Georges Braque's Soda and Stuart Davis' Eggbeater V; it includes works by the 17th century Dutch masters...
...John Zink Special, almost an exact copy of last year's winner, 30-year-old Pat Flaherty had already spun through his trial heats fast enough to set a one-lap record: 146.056 m.p.h. In the big test itself, freckle-faced Flaherty, a truant from his Chicago taproom, felt sure that he had "the horses" to outrun his competitors. The trick was to stay in front of trouble...