Word: taverner
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...place "of grandeur and of eloquent silence," and attracted a group of pre-beatnik sandal wearers of all sexes, who gathered evenings for drinks and folk dancing at Nepenthe, once the house of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth but now the region's most famous and almost only tavern, run by an intellectual refugee from San Francisco named Bill Fassett. Then came another brand of fugitive to Big Sur's beauty, such as retired Editor-Publisher William L. Chenery. ex-Diplomat-Journalist Nicholas Roosevelt, a cousin of Teddy, a Roman Catholic order of monks called Hermits...
Hound that stood guard in front of the Hare and Hound Tavern in Syracuse has all the elegance of the live animal itself...
Died. Lee Hastings Bristol, 69, suave board chairman of Bristol-Myers Co., middle son of Co-Founder William M. Bristol, an advertising enthusiast who put his firm's jingles on the air in the 1920s (later sponsored Duffy's Tavern, Mr. District Attorney) and so, by feeding back up to 26% of sales into promotion, helped build the small pharmaceutical house into a $160 million-a-year top drugmaker; of a heart attack; in Point Pleasant...
...with $3,000 in savings, Jahn leased a run-down Munich tavern, dressed it up with Vienna woods decor and a resoundingly fowl menu. He figured that hearty-eating Germans-who considered barbecued chicken quite a delicacy and were willing to pay $3 to $4 for a whole one at a festival like Munich's frothy Oktoberfest-would buy it every day if it were cheaper. To keep his own costs down, Jahn bicycled to the Munich poultry market every morning, haggled for bargains, pedaled back to the restaurant with a load of chicken. His specialty: half a roast...
Wandering through what is called the Harlem section of Albany, Ga. (pop. 59,000), the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 33, paused to talk to clusters of Negroes on street corners, stepped gingerly into a poolroom and a tavern, visited a shoe shop here, a filling station there. He preached a theme that Albany's restless Negroes were finding harder and harder to accept: nonviolence in their drive to desegregate the town...