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...back into the corporate structure-and may my mother never draw another breath if this isn't so." Since 1957 he has acquired a $450,000 warehouse, a $900,000 motel, a $375,000 restaurant and office building, a $250,000 retail store, and a tavern worth...
...Finley was reported as saying the action was not only good for the play, but also for introducing the House's symbol--you guessed it an elephant--to the fresh-men. He noted that Shake-speare refers to an Elephant tavern in Twelfth Night: "Hold, sir, here's my purse, in the soth suburbs, at the Elephant, is best to lodge...
...months after she took Chloromycetin late in 1958, Mrs. Love felt weak and went to another doctor, who diagnosed aplastic anemia, in which the bone marrow fails to make enough blood cells. Her husband sold his business, the Beer Barrel Tavern outside Redding, to pay for her care, including 60 transfusions. At Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center, the transfusions and vigorous treatment with cortisone and testosterone kept Mrs. Love among the 25% of patients who get aplastic anemia and survive, but the hormones produced their own side effects. Though Chloromycetin causes these severe reactions in only one of an estimated...
...captivating its kept women. His companions ranged from "Blasted Bet" Wilkinson, a "sad profligate girl" who was an ornament of Wetherby's, an inn where Hickey watched a battle between two half-naked women (he did not approve), to "Silver Tail," whore-in-residence at a sporting tavern, and Fanny Temple, the jeweled mistress of an elderly townsman...
...Curfis Harnock (246 pp.; Harcourt, Brace & World; $4.50). Strangers may think that Kaleburg, Iowa, is just a "Siberian collection of buildings," but to Farmer Robert Schneider it means pie and coffee at the Kaleburg Kafé, dances at the Cornflower Ballroom, high old times in Buzzy Burns's tavern, with its row of convenient cabins out back. His wife Donna is both high-spirited and indecisive, but he settles her down with a tumbling succession of babies. His spinster sister Alma proves more difficult. She falls in love with soft-spoken Roger Larkin, a feckless Southerner who holds...