Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earl of Oxford, the Earl of Rutland or the Earl of Derby. Some 20 years ago a Broadway pressagent named Calvin Hoffman dug up another old theory: the true author was the dissolute young genius Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe, so this one goes, was not killed in that famous tavern brawl; he simply went into hiding and as an outlaw wrote the plays since credited to Shakespeare. Proof of this theory, Hoffman figured, might well be found in the tomb of Marlowe's benefactor Sir Thomas Walsingham, who was laid to rest some three centuries ago in the parish church...
...joined when outraged mothers, with toddlers and perambulated infants in tow, formed a human barricade to stymie a bulldozer sent to flatten the flora on a half-acre dear to the kiddies but now slated to become a parking lot for patrons of the park's fancy-menued Tavern-on-the-Green. The man behind the man who manned the 'dozer: New York City's fireballing, thin-skinned Park Commissioner Robert Moses. He lost no time putting down the citizens' rebellion, had a storm fence thrown up around the disputed territory between one midnight and dawn...
...Fight. In Secaucus, N.J., Tavern Owner Henry Krajewski launched his second consecutive bid for the U.S. presidency, announced the main plank in his 1956 campaign platform: annexation of Canada...
...short story, Novelist Bates seems not to know how to get out of the double mess he has contrived, and put The Sleepless Moon to sleep. But in the last extremity, there is a classic way out for all novelists in a jam, and Bates uses it. The tavern wench dies of an abortion, and unhappy Melford is let off his hook. Frankie runs out on Constance, but she is still hooked in the heart, and pitches herself from the church tower. What this trite tale of love and death is intended to light up hardly matters. But women...
Fare Game. In Cedarburg, Wis., Escaped Convict Blondon P. Becktell, one of the state's "most-wanted" men, grandly offered $5 to anybody in the tavern who would drive him to Milwaukee, found a taker in Ozaukee County Sheriff Edmund J. Bienlein, unwittingly climbed into the squad car for a ride back to prison...