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Tommy Rowles, Bartender to the Prominent (and Others), Dies at 78

FILE-- Tommy Rowles, longtime bartender at the Carlyle Hotel, in New York, at work in 2009. Rowles, who for 53 years, asked “What are you having?” to the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Paul McCartney and anyone else who bellied up to the Bemelmans Bar in Manhattan, died on Nov. 11, 2018, He was 78. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)