Radio: Barrooms with a View

Television is not yet available in every Chicago home, but it is literally just around the corner. The city's only television station, WBKB, reports that two-thirds of its audience takes in the show with lifted elbows at the 250 Chicago bars that own television sets.

Al Schlossberg, manager of the King's Palace, a television tavern on North Clark Street, last week analyzed the new drift:

" 'Bout coupla monts ago business started gettin' stinkin'. We was losin' money, but fast. I gotta do somethin' to goose da place up. Now I'm a sport lover, see. So I figure maybe dese guys is goin'...

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