Word: trib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play's preoccupation with bed and booze proved too much for some of the 14 Advisory Board members. "I thought it was a filthy play," said Chicago Tribune Editor William D. Maxwell, who spends part of his time back home scrubbing books "by dirty-fingered authors" from the Trib's weekly bestseller list. Washington Star Vice President Benjamin McKelway confessed that he rejected the play without having seen it. Safe & Solid. Otherwise, the awards were what many a commentator termed "safe and solid"-and about as controversial as a seed catalogue. Posthumous prizes went to Physician-Poet William...
...Metropolitan Opera House. A drugstore was his front, but the number of customers who reeled out onto Seventh Avenue after stopping in to fill "prescriptions" invited too many raids. In 1925 Bleeck opened less conspicuously situated quarters behind a Greek coffee stand in a shabby building alongside the Trib...
...Many an issue of the Trib was put out right over there at that table," Bleeck once said with pride, and with a sort of reverse snobbery he would keep celebrities waiting for tables while he tended to his journalistic charges. On any night, the late City Editor Stanley Walker could assemble a staff just by phoning downstairs-when he was not there himself...
Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, Heywood Broun, Henry Cabot Lodge (then a Trib editorial writer), Wolcott Gibbs and Gene Fowler regularly turned up at the peephole, giving rise to its nickname: "the latter-day Mermaid Tavern...
Rows were rare, but a memorable fight shook the joint in 1938 when an enraged playwright named Jack Kirkland stalked in and pasted Trib Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr. (now with the New York Post) for panning his latest creation. Bleeck rushed to the scene shouting "We don't allow overly intoxicated people here, and no fighting neither." With that, he beat a smart tattoo on Kirkland's skull with a blackjack he just happened to be carrying...