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...view of James Caesar Petrillo, trumpeter-boss of the American Federation of Musicians, musicians are simply workmen who make more or less pleasant noises for a living. "What's the difference," he once cried, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Last week Petrillo set up a little ceremony to pound home his point of view. Before him came Pianist Oscar Levant, penalized with suspension from the union last April for temperamentally failing to honor concert contracts, thus depriving supporting musicians of work. Levant's humiliation reminded Petrillo of another time when art bowed to business. "There...
Optical Illusion. In Milwaukee, Thomas Buchanan, 26, protesting in vain when police rushed him to the hospital after a tavern brawl, finally got his point across: the eye he had lost in the fight was made of glass...
...Quick One. In Danbury, Conn., Irving Parks, complaining in court of his neighbor's over-neighborliness, testified that Charles Romaine had stopped him on a downtown street, invited him into a tavern for a drink, and, when he hesitated, tapped him on the head with an iron bar and poked him with a knife...
Tightwad. In Sacramento, cops who questioned Donald Garrett for refusing to pay for the drink he had ordered at a tavern, found $2,500 in his pocket, listened to his explanation: "I'm not in the habit of spending much money on myself...
...first inauguration, in 1789 in New York City, someone forgot to provide a Bible for the. President's oath. George Washington had all but started to raise his right hand when a frantic messenger turned up with the Good Book (which he had found in a downtown tavern where the St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons used to hold its meetings...