Word: bistro
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...down-at-heel bistro on the French Riviera one night in August 1944, a pianist lazily fingered a nostalgic ballad from a crudely cleffed manuscript. Some G.I.s at the bar asked to hear it again. The musician played it once more, and then told its history. A Jewish friend of his in Nice, hunted by the Gestapo, had written it three years before, had left it with a publisher, then fled to the Alpes-Maritimes to join a band of the Maquis. Its title reflected its composer's despair: C'est Fini (It Is Finished...
...have become a nation to us, not merely charming and gifted individuals-a nation with a political and social conscience. It did not need a Roosevelt to teach this to me personally, but that is what he has done to the charwomen of London, the bistro proprietor in Provence, the factory hand in Kharkov...
Celebrities at the Stork. One day her father's old friend, Quentin Reynolds, almost the only friend she had in New York then, took her to a 53rd Street bistro just coming into vogue, the Stork Club. There, while Reynolds waited for a friend, Anita haltingly sipped an orangeade. The people she met were all fond of Bud Counihan; they found it, now, remarkably easy to be fond of his girl Anita. In a matter of weeks her friends had increased from one to 201; in a matter of months, Bud's beautiful daughter was the toast...
Back down to the Pied Piper, where Maxie Kaminsky, Jimmy Johnson, Willie Smith, et al, still play the best Dixieland in the City and pack the bistro nightly ... Frankie Newton was bending an elbow at the bar and we adjourned to his apartment to admire his paintings ... No kidding, Frankie is doing some fine stuff and the Southern Comfort was fine... Newt has left George's but plays every Tuesday at the Pied Piper...
...Lewis opened at the RKO Boston yesterday with George Brunies and Muggsy Spanier in the band. What some men will do for money!--Latest advice from NYC tells of Dorchester's Max Kaminsky, just out of the Navy, opening a new Village bistro, "The Pied Piper," Cless. Orchard, and Danny Alvin in the band