Word: breslin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along Broadway, Manhattan, strayed a brindle Great Dane bitch as big as a calf and as heavy as a featherweight boxer, all alone, with her tongue lolling out and a puzzled look in her eyes. The doorman of the Hotel Breslin had never seen a Great Dane bitch before, but unlike the other Manhattanites along the block, he was not frightened. The bitch looked as if she might be worth money; he stepped out and took Her by the collar. An hour later from a Manhattan police station to which the doorman had consigned her. Handler Ben Lewis of Lexington...
Died. Patrick A. ("Paddy") Roche, oldtime fight promoter, proprietor of the famed Red Carpet Saloon (first Manhattan cafe to have a carpet), referee of the bout in 1889 when John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain after 75 bare-knuckle rounds at Richburg, Miss.; of heart disease; at the Hotel Breslin, Manhattan...