 King Arthur, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Ashe, Art Carney, Artie Shaw, Art Donovan, Arthur Miller, Art Linkletter, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Goldberg, Arthur Treacher, Artie Johnson, Arthur Schlessinger, Arthur Godfrey, Art Tatum, Art Baker, Art Garfunkle, Arthur Kennedy, Arthur Murray, and Arturo Toscanini.
When the Beatles came across the pond sporting those famous mop tops, a reporter asked Ringo Starr "What do you call that hairstyle?" Ringo solemnly replied, "I call it Arthur."
Subsequently, Sybil Burton, whose husband Richard had run off with Elizabeth Taylor, opened a discotheque on East 54th Street, the site of the old El Morocco, and she called it "Arthur." When it opened, no one could have imagined that Arthur would cause such a sensation, and that everyone would want to go there. From 1965 to 1970, it was the hottest club in Manhattan.
A giant drawing on the wall featured the familiar "Peanuts" characters standing by an Arthur marquee. Lucy is saying, "Can Arthur come out and play?" Snoopy is saying, "Arthur!" On another wall hung the reproduction of a New Yorker cartoon picturing a man frantically hailing a taxi while his elderly wife is frugging on the sidewalk. "Arthur," the man is saying, "and hurry."
Artifacts from Arthur have mostly vanished into history, except for a rare ashtray or two. We have retrieved a few of these authentic specimens, each a one-of-a-kind gift for your own Arthur.
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