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Rock & Rye. In Pekin, 111., Tavern Owner Julius Barnes invited the jury to drinks on the house after it acquitted him of drunkenness, even though five cops swore that Barnes had taken one too many before he tried, with a hammer, chisel and ice tongs, to steal the old City Hall's 800-lb. cornerstone, which was rumored to contain a quart of 1884 whisky...
...Night Watch. In Chicago, someone broke into Charles Racanelli's tavern, took $300 in cash, $1,000 worth of liquor and his 145-lb. great Dane watchdog...
...Apollo room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Va., a group of students from the College of William and Mary met one night in 1776 to form a new fraternity. The fraternity was to be nothing like other roistering student societies of the day. It was to have as its motto the first letters of three Greek words: 3>io(ro(f)la Btou KvfiepvrjTijs ("Love of wisdom the guide of life"). The letters, chosen that night, have remained stamped on U.S. higher education ever since-Phi Beta Kappa...
...nearest college is New Jersey College for Women, which is practically monopolized by Rutgers, and there is nothing else save the big cities of New York and Philadelphia to satisfy the Tiger men. In Princeton the Nassau Tavern, a couple of movies, and a bowling alley don't fill the bill. In short, during the week, Princeton is sex-starved...
Princetonians will probably find Jim Cronin's place the closest thing to their own Nassau tavern, on a bigger, bawdier, scale...