Bar-hopping (1950, 1954)

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   Jesse Sheidlower, now in Oxford, requests some "bar-hopping."
   From ancestry.com newspapers.


   22 February 1950, WATERLOO DAILY COURIER (Waterloo, Iowa), pg. 2, col. 4:
   At midnight, the clock of St. Louis cathedral tolled the official end of a
crazy-gay day of multi-hued parades, gay and whirling waltzes, indiscriminate
kissing, and plain bar-hopping.
   (At New Orleans--ed.)


   29 October 1952, EAST LIVERPOOL REVIEW (East Liverpool, Ohio), pg.12, col.
2:
   Everyone has heard the brushoff line: "Don't call us.  We'll call you."
Out here, though, it's "Call you tomorrow."  Tomorrow never comes.
   Table hopping is practiced everywhere.  But in Hollywood there's a
practice referred to as "people-hopping."  A man who at a party or a bar jumps from
person to person, always in quest of, never finding, the perfect companion, is
a "people hopper."
   Then there's a two-line ploy you hear quite a lot of.  An agent, let us
say, is trying to peddle a client to a producer.  The dialogue goes like this:
   Agent:  I think he's a great actor.
   PRoducer:  When will you know definitely?
   AN EXPRESSION for the star who has blossomed into the big time overnight:
"Two years ago, she couldn't get arrested."
   (From "Hollywood Has A Word--Or Two--For It," by John Crosby.  I've posted
his stuff before--ed.)


   22 April 1954, CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM (Elyria, Ohio), pg. 22, col. 2:
   The latest "spectacular" plans at NBC-TV include a program titled "The
Wide, Wide World", a 90-minute spread that will pick up scenes from all over the
country, including deep sea fishing off the coast of Florida, skiing in New
Hampshire, gambling in Las Vegas, bar hopping in New Orleans' famous French
Quarter and various other pursuits in various other interesting spots.