Word: tavernes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end the Kennedys deserted Washington and flew out by helicopter for their first visit to Glen Ora, their rented estate in Middleburg. Va. The press was told that there would be no news, no tours of the house, precious few beds in the nearby Red Fox Tavern for stubborn reporters. There were no weekend visitors. One morning Jackie went riding on her bay gelding, Bit of Irish, over bridle paths that had been specially cleared of snow. For the Kennedys, Glen Ora visits will be one more front in the fight for privacy and informality...
...Side, he recalls tearfully, his Russian-born grandmother made bathtub gin to support the family, and one of Sheldon Berman's first memories is of being held by his mother (now dead) in a tight clutch of terror while police raided their home. His father Nathan was a tavern owner, and he appears, in one of Berman's best routines, as a militantly bourgeois delicatessen keeper who rough-talkingly tenders a chunk of his life savings so that his son can go to acting school; the sketch ends with the father's soft-spoken request...
Boxing Is Good. The doctors agreed with Harvard's Quigley that "young men must blow off steam, and the playing field is much to be preferred to the tavern." They disagreed with the University of Wisconsin, which, after Boxer Mohr's death retired from intercollegiate boxing Said Newark's Dr. Max M. Novich onetime University of North Carolina boxer: As most physicians and educators know there has been a serious decline in the physical fitness of our youth. Boxing if properly taught, would be a step in the right direction in conditioning the body as well...
...sports car, a Mercedes-Benz SL 300, on his tax returns as business expenses. That gave scholarly Chicago Crimebuster Richard Ogilvie, 37, the clue he needed. Ogilvie, sole survivor of a Justice Department investigative group ostentatiously set up in 1958 to combat Chicago crime, checked with 3,500 local tavern owners, discovered that not one of them had ever seen Tony come around, at least to sell any beer...
...December 1956, Holzapfel and Joseph A. Peel Jr., a West Palm Beach lawyer and a former judge, were arrested for attempted murder. Peel had driven his law partner, Harold Gray, to a tavern, where Holzapfel was waiting. The partner was given a brutal beating but survived. The motive, police charged, was a $100,000 insurance policy on Gray's life. After years of trials, the case was dropped when Peel agreed to resign from...