Word: bistro
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John Cronin, proprietor of the local bistro, said last night that he doesn't see how his business could be construed as being in competition with the Parker Place. "They're two entirely different businesses," Cronin said...
...three. Much more important, he thinks, is that through him the greater part of the village has lost its hostility to the church and is increasingly dubious of Communist propaganda. A typical example of Mission de France work is Father Baudry's conquest of Lulu's bistro...
...offers advice or joins serious discussions only when others take the initiative. "There's no question of converting these people except in rare cases," says Father Baudry. "If I tried to do that, doors would be closed to me. But the people in Madame Lulu's bistro are infinitely nearer God than they were four years...
Ernie Byfield, Chicago hotelman and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn), reached 60, took a dim view of the bistro business: "Nightclubs are like gold mines. For every ten bucks you put in, one buck is extracted . . . Old nightclubs and old streetwalkers are the same. The older they get, the less money they take...
...here & there, for fraternity dances and Hollywood high-lifers such as Columnist Jimmy Fidler. But the surest sign that they were really arriving was the hushed way the fans listened when the boys sat in with jazzbos like Drummer Zutty Singleton out at the Club 47, a Ventura Boulevard bistro where the best of Hollywood's radio and movie musicians go after work...