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Horse Sense. In Chicago's outskirts a plow horse named Admiral, wearied of the heat, broke the traces and charged down the street to a tavern, lined up against the regulars, plumped his nose on the bar and was rewarded with a free beer. His master, tired of searching for him, dropped into the bar for a quick one, spied the horse; they had another beer together and went back to their plowing...
...Especially harmful are the so-called 'wild' jazz bands, consisting of a piano, violin, accordion and drum . . . Instead of the popular Soviet songs . . . they reproduce melodies filled with tavern melancholy and alien to the Soviet people...
...interest in the feminine sex is nothing new, it has not always been so aesthetic. In the earlier years of its existence, the Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions of romance-bent musicians would start from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, and comb the land from Brattle Street and Brookline to Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill...
...dictum, according to the Daily Princetonian, does not apply to drinking in rooms or in beer-halls such as the revered Nassau Tavern. It is particularly aimed at the practice of throwing beer cans and other containers at participants in sporting events...
Born. To Edward F. ("Ed") Gardner, 43, radio's "Archie," arch-bartender and manager of Duffy's Tavern, and second wife Simone Hegeman Gardner, 34: their second child, second son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Stephen Anthony. Weight...