Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Watson has no intention of relaxing. He will go right on telephoning his players at home on off evenings to make sure they are keeping training; he will go right on fining them if they drop into a saloon for as much as a short beer or a long telephone call. Anyone caught swapping small talk with the opposition during pre-game practice will get an automatic $100 fine. "We're not out to make friends," says Philip Henry Watson. "We're out to win games...
...period pieces to lend atmosphere, Bernardin opened a night club in the style of the wild and woolly West, complete with waiters in candy-striped shirtsleeves, banjo players and a suitably active, shapely and deciduous stripper named Miss Fortunia. Fortunia's act at the Crazy Horse Saloon caught on like a prairie fire. By last week Le Striptease was sweeping Paris from Montparnasse to Montmartre, and even seeping out of the city to enliven the sleepy provinces. "It's bigger than the cancan," exulted one nightclub owner...
Hard Drinking. Saloonkeeper Bilgray earned his fame by making the Tropic into a serious drinkingman's bar-an honest saloon that scorned chromium, jukeboxes and B-girls. Its sights and sounds were shiny brass, dark wood panels, man-to-man talk and softly whirling fans...
...LOOK OF THE OLD WEST, by Foster-Harris (301 pp.; Viking; $7.50), may be the closest look of all during a year especially rich in books on the subject. Practically a how-to-do-it of western life, its drawings illustrate everything from saloon cuspidors to the Deadwood stagecoach...
...this saga of Superman on horseback is impeded by a horde of females. First onscreen is dewy-eyed Karen Sharpe, who trembles like a subway grating each time Bob goes roaring past. Next comes imperious Jan Sterling, manageress of a gaggle of dancing girls at the Palace Saloon. Jan has a secret: she is Mitchum's estranged wife, and soon they are exchanging the barbed dialogue that veteran moviegoers recognize as the Hollywood hallmark of true love. Eventually, while his enemies steal up on him from two directions, Mitchum takes that long, long walk down the deserted cow-town...