European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Cigar chewing harrys banknotes Are gifts of gis College seals and pennants were untouched by the germans new York bar a cluttered been the favorite hangout for americans in Paris since the last War by Morton Gudebrod Paris one afternoon late in 1944 an american lieutenant wandered nostalgically Down the Rue Daunou in making a pilgrimage to a shrine of his Carefree youth harrys new York he expected to find it Long since dismantled by the but As he got nearer he saw that the sign was still there Over the door of number 5 say Sank Roo Doe As he saw that the swinging doors were functioning and he went not knowing what he might what he found was just about the same As the scene he had left some sixteen years before the College pen Nants Hung on the panelled the cartoons by the framed news Piper and Harry in his usual sporty chewing imperturbable on his inevitable half smoked it was As if time had the lieutenant looked at a plaque on the Wall which immortalized win ners of the International Beer drinking and there was his own 1928 Champion Jack har and on the Back bar stood the same two liter Goblet he had drained for the glory of the Back then he had been one of the army of undergraduates who invaded France every summer to savor the collegiate version of gallic spirit now he had been part of another and France was ready to begin again and Harry was there at the old waiting for the tourists to come today at Harry Macelhone looks somewhat like a pin sized version of the late Irvin his which somehow gets past the eve present has a Strong flavor of his native whether Hes conversing in English or he has a Good memory for and an infallible one for faces which have helped to make him one of the most widely known Barmen on theres been a lot of pm in he and bless me if i know How but i remember Emall like they were standing Here at the a Good Many i when he was Harry left Scotland and went to the United states where he soon found work As a he was a Good and and in a year or two found himself presiding Over the stately mahogany of the hotel Plaza in new in the Summers he went to France and served at the casinos of the More elegant then came 1914 and the first world and Harry put Down his bar rag and enlisted i the Royal naval air but his reputation was Strong enough to weather four years of and 1919 found him Back at his hews put in charge of the bar at the London flying first american style roadhouse to be opened in later he managed the drinking department of such exclusive London caravan series As Giros weekend photographs and the Bucks pretty soon he was Back on the that where they All the International you might Call i just followed them around the be can or maybe it was they followed for i was always there when they f y1922 he had a goo sized nest q and he bought the new York bar from Milton a noted Amer ican jockey who had opened it two years the was already a rendezvous for resident of the sporting and for news Cor respondents stationed in in the years that Harry broadened the clientele to such an extent that no american youth of the Scott Fitz Gerald Era would dare admit he had come to Paris without a Lapel Button proclaiming his membership in the International bar flies the if was an idea concocted by some of the american journalists whose occasional feature stories had begun to spread publicity for harrys bar to every Corner and Campus of the United its bylaws de scribe it As a secret and sacred Frater Nal organization devoted to the uplift and downfall of serious membership was restricted to persons who would sign the Register and pay five for the membership card and collegians of the prohibition Era found their if credentials enviable proof of a hard living cosmopolitan they made a wonderful impression when casually exhibited at fraternity dances Back the membership a Hal dozen fat still repose under the bar and contain nearly the Bee drinking Challenge was instituted in 1925 As an activity worthy of the anyone who cared might attempt to break the record set by an american youth in that year when he drained the quart Beaker in Nineteen the challenger had to pay Beer if he otherwise it was on the in Cut the time to seventeen and a half seconds but loss the Beer in the Gutter of Rue Daunou less than a minute no one yet has been Able to better the time of one Henry Cochran of who gulped the brew in eleven harrys is not a very Large Stab the Darkwood Walls Are so cluttered with mementos of various kinds that during a Busy after noon hour it looks like a cocktail party in a curiosity the gloves that Primo camera wore in his fight with Young Stribling in 1929 Dangle from a Light fixture at one end of the and fixed to a Post is a Horseshoe that once was worn by Man caricatures of Harry of them drawn by leading american cartoonists of the prewar since the liberation of gis have Auto graphed banknotes representing the currency of 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