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...Omaha, Henry Grabois put a plaintive sign in his tavern window: "Please . . . come in and buy a pack of cigarets...
Teetotaler? In Springfield, Ill., a thief broke into Albert Mills's tavern, made off with seven cases of empty beer bottles...
...Party. Charlie Milton's wife left home. She was gone for months. But she finally came back, and one night last week she and Imogene went out together. Charlie met them at Amend's Tavern and they all went back to Imogene's, where they had a heated argument. Focus of the argument: Charlie. Wrathfully Betty Milton jabbed an ice pick through Imogene's screen door. Imogene, just as wrathful, rushed out and hurled a beer glass through one of the Miltons' windows...
...Dominator. Marta Skavronsky entered the "tavern brawl" of Peter's Moscow "as she would have gone into a new kitchen.... History felt her broom." She was illiterate, clean and piously Lutheran. Purchased for a ruble (approximately 50?) from the Russian corporal who first claimed her as a prisoner, the sturdy Lithuanian entered the household of Marshal Sheremetiev without fuss or fume. She obediently went to bed with him and next day set about tidying his house...
...Homey Touch. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., a tavern-owner reported that a prowler broke into his place three times in three weeks, took nothing, simply rearranged the furniture...