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Died. Henry W. (Harry) Armstrong, 71, who at 17 wrote the music to Sweet Adeline; after long illness; in The Bronx, N.Y. Called My Old New England Home when written in 1896, the song was not published until seven years and several revisions later, eventually spread through vaudeville, tavern, and singing society to become the nation's favorite drinking ballad. Composer Armstrong, who also wrote / Love My Wife, but, Oh You Kid, made close to $100,000 from Sweet Adeline...
...pity that this beautiful reading room of Widener is beginning to look more like a tavern, but what is of far greater concern is that a number of readers are victimized because others wish to enjoy a dubious luxury while reading. What prevents these latter from utilizing a smoking room for that purpose, since the primary use of a library is reading and not smoking? The other alternative is, perhaps, to build a library for non-smokers...
...They have exposed a host of literary forgeries, revealed that Poet William Wordsworth fathered an illegitimate daughter during a stay in France in 1792,* established that Poet Christopher Marlowe was not killed in a row over a bawd (as Puritans told the story), but over who should pay a tavern check†. One of the most impressively persistent investigations of all was the case of old Sir Thomas Malory, a job that challenged two generations of tracers of lost literary persons...
Shadow & Substance. In Passaic, N.J., Joseph Gardella, arrested for drunken driving, explained that he had been repairing a tavern refrigerator, attributed his condition to fumes from the methyl chloride used as a cooling fluid...
...York City last week, associations of tavern-owners and saloonkeepers called sad-faced meetings to consider the rising cost of beer. "I don't think we'll be able to reduce the size of the glass," said President Robert Degnan of the United Restaurant Liquor Dealers of Manhattan, Inc. "There wouldn't be anything left." That left only one solution-the 15^ beer...