Word: tavernes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some tavernes have already closed, and others may soon be forced to follow their example unless their musicians agree to share the losses by accepting smaller fees. One host tried offering patrons free plastic plates and cups to tear. The tranquilizer does not always work; a frustrated drinker in the capital's Skorpios tavern last week commandeered a dozen plates and had just finished shattering the last one when police grabbed him. It was the first arrest under the new decree. The word is about in the capital that some Athenians feel so blue about the latest blue...
...Gambling is a way of life in New Haven," explains a tavern tramp. "Not only has Yale won every game this season, but they are beating the odds continuously. The Yale football team is making a lot of New Haven residents rich. Winning is no longer the question. It is now "How many points can Dowling put on the board...
...example, Ordway recalls the Cornell trip last year. "The Cornell guys literally took over a tavern in Ithaca to throw a party for us, put us up overnight, and even found us dates...
Intricate Jumble. Kline's early Greenwich Village scenes of the late 1930s and early 1940s were sturdily realistic. At the time, he was decorating the walls of the Bleecker Street Tavern with $5 murals, to make ends meet. His break into abstraction was sudden and dramatic. For years, he had been making increasingly simplified sketches; as an art student in London, he had also collected Japanese prints. One day in 1949, he was visiting a friend who had a Balopticon projector; they enlarged several Kline sketches on the wall. The blown-up image wrenched the drawings...
...their own, and four sisters all became nuns) first set up business in the resort town of Hampton Beach. Beginning with a single hot-dog stand, the boys wheeled and dealt themselves in and out of restaurants, real estate and a bank before taking over the Lamie Tavern and a hotel-keeping career. Since then, their projects, all overseen by Ma Dunfey, have ranged from acquisition of the 800-room Eastland Hotel in Portland, Me., New England's third biggest hotel, to a $3,850,000 franchised Howard Johnson Motor Lodge now abuilding directly over the Massachusetts Turnpike...