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...Happy Cat Tavern was hit for $2,000 and two cases of whisky. From the Reese House restaurant, $4,000 was stolen. The U.S. Loan Co. lost $7,250. There were scores of others, and finally $40,000 was swiped from a Safeway supermarket on Denver's south side in one of the biggest thefts in the city's history. Denver screamed for the police to do something...
...prevailing chronological standards at Yale University, the Yale Review is as green as any freshman. It did not appear on the New Haven scene until the 200th year of a university already laden with antiquities. It is much younger, for example, than old Connecticut Hall (completed 1752), the tavern known as Mory's (b. 1861), or even Boola Boola (1897).* But last week, as it observed its 50th year with an anniversary issue, the Yale Review could take pride in having become, in a mere half a century, one of Yale's-and journalism's-more imposing...
...sunny resort village of Lake George, N.Y. (pop. 1,026), every tavern and roadhouse was doing S.R.O. business. Then, when the bars closed at 3 o'clock on Labor Day morning, 1,500 college students poured out on Lake George's main street, singing, yelling and tossing beer cans. Alerted to the danger, police and volunteer firemen blockaded the street, finally dispersed the rioters with jets of water from fire-truck hoses. That night 60 beer-filled students, many in their teens, were arrested...
Just Blues (Memphis Slim; Prestige). A collection of original blues by a singer with a voice alive with meaningful inflections. The laments are universal: "Ah walked into a beer tavern To give a girl a nice time Ah had forty-five dollars when ah entered. When ah lef, ah only had one dime. Was she a beer-drinkin' woman? Don't you know, man, don't you know...
According to Bingham, Machu Picchu was in reality the Tampu-Tocco ("Window Tavern") of pre-Inca legend, a mountain fortress maintained by the kings of the Amautas, who ruled the highlands of the Andes for 62 generations. The last king, Pachacuti VI, was mortally wounded in a battle with barbarian tribes of the Amazon jungles, probably in the 8th century A.D., and his body was carried by his loyal warriors to Tampu-Tocco. With the death of Pachacuti, the widespread kingdom of the Amautas broke into pieces...