"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, who has never touched tobacco but who as a youngster delighted the late Charles Anderson Dana by recognizing Cháteau Yquem by taste, made his first visit to one of Manhattan's 50,000 speakeasies, found in it material for a half-column description. Excerpts: ''It is one o'clock in the day and somewhat surprised you see every seat occupied, practically all of them by young girls, chatting with the bartenders, taking cocktails or 'absinthe drip,' if you know what that is.* Some experienced, with...
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