Word: tavernes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joanie's early career is like a clip from an old Judy Garland movie. She sang and sang-with the jukebox in the tavern where her mother worked, with the Venice (Calif.) High School dance band, with a harmony group for the Elks Club. Finally came the Big Audition-with Tommy Oliver's band at the Deauville country club in Santa Monica, and the Big Click. A demonstration disk played for Warner Bros. record company resulted in her first album, Positively the Most, a title artfully designed to rhyme with Drost. But Joanie had already decided the Drost...
...desperation, dial the number. A voice answers: "Hallo. Joe's Tavern." Ask if John Smith is in. The voice replies: "John who?" Say Smith. "You musta got da wrong numbah, buddy...
Crazy Joey Gallo's imminent trip up the river leaves unsettled two puzzling attacks on members of his mob: Who tried to garrote Larry Gallo in a Brooklyn tavern in August, and who shot a Gallo lieutenant, Joseph Magnasco, in October? If the Gallo gangsters know, they are not talking. As an explanation to the boys about why Crazy Joey had clammed up before the jury, the Brooklyn headquarters of the mob is festooned in locker room fashion with inspirational signs: "Don't talk-the life you save may be your...
...Happy Cat Tavern was hit for $2,000 and two cases of whisky. From the Reese House restaurant, $4,000 was stolen. The U.S. Loan Co. lost $7,250. There were scores of others, and finally $40,000 was swiped from a Safeway supermarket on Denver's south side in one of the biggest thefts in the city's history. Denver screamed for the police to do something...
...prevailing chronological standards at Yale University, the Yale Review is as green as any freshman. It did not appear on the New Haven scene until the 200th year of a university already laden with antiquities. It is much younger, for example, than old Connecticut Hall (completed 1752), the tavern known as Mory's (b. 1861), or even Boola Boola (1897).* But last week, as it observed its 50th year with an anniversary issue, the Yale Review could take pride in having become, in a mere half a century, one of Yale's-and journalism's-more imposing...