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...Urtain's father used to win bets by lying on the floor of the family tavern and allowing booted farmers weighing well over 200 lbs. to jump off a counter onto his chest. He died of an ulcer...
...right "to be confronted with the witnesses against him," and the courts have yet to rule if mere television images and telephone lines can provide that confrontation. However, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last summer that the rights of William Allen, who was convicted of robbing a tavern in 1957, had been violated when he was removed from the courtroom because of his unruly behavior. His case, which was argued before the Supreme Court last week, should shed light on the question of physical presence...
...first, "Harper Valley P. T. A.," explains why Namath felt that his interest in Bachelors III, a tavern allegedly frequented by Mafia-types, was innocent...
Lowdermilk's was a wonderfully archaic place redolent of the 19th century, with its air of oddity and discovery. Ralph Newman, owner of Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, observed: "It was like going to your favorite tavern-you could always find things there, like a first printing of the Gettysburg Address." Newman will keep his own store open as long as he can. "We're one of the few bookstores left where you can get a drink in the back," Newman smiled. "Try that on the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...Landlords find they can charge exhorbitant rents and get away with it, because of the limited area which is safe to live in openly. Mafra control of bars and baths in NYC is only one example of outside money controlling our institutions for their profit. In San Francisco the Tavern Guild favors maintaining the ghetto, for it is through ghetto culture that they make a buck. We crowd their bars not because of their merit but because of the absence of any other social institution. The Guild has refused to let us collect funds or pass out gay liberation literature...