Word: taverner
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Motorists and bus passengers were marooned in stores, juke joints, crossroads hamlets all over the storm area. Like the 343 who spent three days jammed in a tavern at tiny (pop. 4) Rockport, Colo, many went without beds and got short rations as supplies ran out. Fifty-eight stranded people at nearby Lone Tree fared better-drivers of two stalled Safeway trucks obligingly unloaded groceries and distributed them to the hungry...
...there are signs of a letdown. In the Badger Tavern, an off-campus hangout, ex-G.I. Bob Miller remarked one night last week: "Some blame it on the talk about another war, some say we're just tired. Whatever it is, there seems to be more cutting of classes this year, more playing around, and less work." President Harold W. Stoke of Louisiana State University, who once taught at Wisconsin, returned there recently and observed: "If you take a freshman at college and give him a convertible and a textbook, you have an uneven contest...
...Artagnan, and what a D'Artagnan! He calmly scales a castle rampart at night, casually rips down whole sets of draperies with a flick of his wrist, hefts a 500-pound bronze statue and chucks it at half a dozen charging varlets--and then springs up a tavern wall to help a friend in danger. In the arms of evil Lady de Turner, he shows that he's just a simple country boy at heart...
...There is nothing," averred Dr. Samuel Johnson, "which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern . . ." Last week he found agreement in an interesting quarter...
...night early this month they walked drunkenly into a Columbus tavern, yanked out automatic pistols and took $800 in cash and checks from the till. Half an hour later they walked into another bar and began shooting. They killed the owner, wounded a woman customer, jubilantly scooped up another...