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...Lady helped San Francisco be what many a citizen wanted it to be-a wide-open town. She furnished bail by the gross to bookmakers and prostitutes, kept a taxi waiting at the door to whisk them out of jail and back to work. But she was also a catalyst that brought underworld and police department into an inevitably corrupt amalgam. At her retirement the San Francisco Chronicle waxed nostalgic: "The Old Lady . . . will take to her rocking chair, draw her shawl about her. . . ." But many a citizen thought simply: "Good riddance...
Afterwards there was carousing in the Teller House, wide-open gambling elsewhere. Lucius Beebe, the Herald Tribune's syndicated exquisite, was among those present, at one time running about in stocking feet, exclaiming in an interested manner that he had lost his underpants...
Later on, among the wide-open delights of pre-war Beale Street, came Mister Crump and Memphis Blues. He tells the familiar story with vivid authority, sorely tilts against "Mr. X-" and "Mr. Z-who gypped him out of the copyright to Memphis Blues...
...centuries, London life had an almost Mediterranean vitality. Its medieval and Elizabethan fairs were riots; its May Days were wide-open phallic festivals; its murders were as common as dirty looks. The streets by day were deafening, by night as dark as doom, at all times filthy enough to guarantee the survival only of the fittest. Londoners were so energetic that despite a generous round of fairs, festivals, bear-baitings and other formal diversions, they repeatedly broke forth in impromptu mass hell-raising. They loved sport, splendor, cruelty, gayety, anarchy. There was no regular police force in London until...
...another good 100 man in the worst way--to fill out his relay quartet or to tuck on the end of the medley in close meets. Dave Stearns, Bob Sceery, Tom Shrewsbury, and Tom Godfrey are all in the running for this job, but it is still a wide-open fight. Captain Frannie Powers, Lonnie Stowell, and Art Bosworth are almost certain to swim three of the legs in a vital relay, and the above-mentioned four reserves, in addition to 50 man Ted McNitt, are battling for the last place on the relay...