Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement of the art center is "The Caf," a lounge-cafeteria where girls congregate in their spare time. Usually one can see there a Princeton, Yale, or Columbia student who has driven to Sarah Lawrence to spend the afternoon hours. While representatives from these three universities date the Sarah Lawrence girls most often, one occasionally sees some pig-tailed coed sporting a Harvard sweatshirt...
...administration. At the time, the King had promised that the "free market in foreign exchange"-the source of all Tangier's material blessings-would go on as before. Now, it seemed, Tangier was scheduled to become, economically as well as politically, just one more Moroccan city. In the cafés of the North African seaport last week, gloomy Tangerines discussed the latest calamitous rumors...
Chief strategist for the Café de Paris is smoothly handsome Manager Nicola di Nozzi, 44, who learned his trade in Manhattan's Quo Vadis restaurant. Di Nozzi's first significant victory over Doney's was gained by capturing the patronage of shapely Artist Novella Parigini (TIME, Jan. 25, 1954), famed both for her slickly painted nudes and for her girl friends who wear tight slacks, wild hairdos, and exude the sort of animal magnetism that , draws crowds on the Via Veneto. Another Di Nozzi inspiration was the ivory telephones that Café de Paris waiters plug...
...Roman nobles began drifting into the Café de Paris, too, and nowadays Principessa Giovanelli, Marchese Bottini and assorted Orsinis and Caracciolos are regularly paged over the Café's new loudspeakers. Says a less exalted Roman who recently abandoned his longtime table at Doney's: "I like Americans. But I like my Roman friends, too. And the place to see them is at the Café de Paris." Inevitably, more and more Americans in Rome are beginning to take the same line. Said one two-week tourist: "I like to watch strange people...
Most ominous shift in the tide of battle came not long ago when Director Federico (La Strada) Fellini shot a long sequence for his new film La Dolce Vita in front of the Café de Paris. Last year he would have used Doney's for his background. But the management of Caffé Doney is not panicking. Surveying his tourist-crowded tables last week, a Doney manager said disdainfully: "When people ask us where the Café de Paris is, we tell them...