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Bookkeeping Entry. In St. Paul, Minn., after Thomas J. Palmer had run up a $2 bar bill in the Jolly-O Tavern, he touched a match to the tavern's credit records, causing a $35,000 fire...
Poor Man's Appetite. In Milwaukee, Ralph Buchanan broke into a tavern at dawn, got hot lifting bottles of champagne out of a wine-cellar window, decided to have a quick beer, was still searching for a bottle-opener when cops came...
...tavern on the West Side made it possible for fans to stay in Chicago. Customer Syl Szajers, a technician at Zenith Radio, moved a converted TV set of his own design into the Polonia Grove bar. He rigged up a 40-foot mast on the tavern roof, perched a five-element antenna atop it, and pointed it in the direction of Milwaukee. A homemade booster amplifier brought in the signal and the Polonia's customers watched happily as Robinson knocked out his opponent. Said Szajers modestly: "Oh, the picture was a little shaky-but so was Rocky Graziano...
...looking for Beauty in alleys and gutters, U.S. artists have prided themselves on smoking the lady out of the most unexpected hiding places. Last week in a Manhattan gallery, Painter James Fosburgh smoked her out again. He had discovered her in a dirty clothes hamper, a rumpled pillow, a tavern jukebox. "Anything can be beautiful if you bother to see its beauty," says Fosburgh. "Even a hamper can be a vision of the world." He makes a handsome still life from a pair of discarded work gloves or a coffee cup, a romantic landscape from the bleak hangars and dingy...
...smiling Earl Warren was trundling casually through the state, meeting the folks. At Truesdell, he made a little speech to a small group in a room next to the bar at Bloxdorf's tavern (some of the boys brought in their glasses while they listened). At a rally in Racine, he talked to 1,500. He was making friends...