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Poor Man's. For President, Henry Krajewski, Secaucus, N. J. pig farmer and tavern owner (TIME, March 17); for Vice President, Frank Jenkins of Rahway, N. J. Krajewski-whose campaign buttons read "For President Krajewski I Like"-has gotten his ticket on only one state ballot (New Jersey...
Road Repairs. In Niles, Calif., when Harry Short was arrested for burglarizing a tavern, he explained why he was carrying a twelve-inch claw bar, a ten-inch screwdriver, a hack saw and six blades, and a three-cornered file: he had a wooden leg and needed all those things to keep it in walking order...
Seniority. In Covington, Ky., James Riggs, 95, told police who arrived to help his 65-year-old son take him home from a tavern: "I'll go home with you guys, but no runny-nosed kid is going to tell me what...
...what outraged Gina's counsel most was that Writer de Boccard, in referring to Gina's bosom, repeatedly used the word zinna, which is "vulgar language of the tavern, its precise meaning referring to the udder of a quadruped." This was "an attack on the reputation and honor of the actress, the woman and wife . . . because it violated all Italian tradition that calls for special respect to a woman, especially to a married woman." Furthermore, read the charge, this was "generic and specific defamation...
John O. Whedon--Writer. Has published in Collier's New Yorker, Harper's, and others. In Hollywood, wrote for Ronald Colman, Groucho Marx, Noel Coward, Carole Lombard, Alexander Woolcott, Madeleine Carroll, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Did Duffy's Tavern script...