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...Reader Ripley's memory has wandered slightly: the stylish Bank Exchange's presiding genius was Duncan Nichol, and potent Pisco Punch ("Two, and you'd hug a wildcat") was his invention. Pisco John's was a sailors' pub a few blocks away...
Washington readers could not remember a time when their daily newspapers had missed publication-until last week. Then a wildcat strike of A.F.L. pressmen shut down the capital's four dailies for a day, until the International Union ordered the strikers back. This week the pressmen struck again, after Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching had tried all night to settle the dispute over wages and hours. A.F.L. stereotypers walked out too. The second strike, blessed by the International's officers, hit the afternoon papers first-the Star and the Daily News-and shut them down. Pickets also appeared...
...Daiquiri to quiet the morphine. His stories usually pictured his own rampaging footballers (among them Marshall Goldberg and Charles Trippi) as shy, timid little fellows who screamed unless he kept buying them lollipops and tucked them into bed at night. The opposition were brutes who combed their hair with wildcat claws. He fancied himself as the depressed coach without material who concentrated on character-building-and wasn't very good at that either. "I've got a three-year-old son who sucks his thumb," Jimmy once said. "I've been trying to mold...
...Texas was rich cotton land. He could remember the Yankees coming down the road "all brass buttons and bayonets," remember the uncertain years while the family that had owned him disintegrated and disappeared. Uncle Row stayed on, farming a little, a good hand with horses and stock. He hunted wildcat, bobcat, polecat, foxes, coons, possums and rabbits. Nights, he took a coal-oil lantern down to the Keechi Creek, baited up with rabbit entrails, fished all night long. Uncle Row could catch catfish, when no one else could. There was a secret to it, but Uncle Row said: "Bless...
Seattle taxi drivers speak of him sourly. Since 1944, Beck has kept them under local trusteeship (a state in which the rank & file cannot initiate meetings) as punishment for holding a wildcat strike. Many teamsters complain that they have no voice in the union's affairs...