Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three mediocre watercolors painted by Der Fiihrer himself. The state of Bavaria won custody of three party emblems bearing Hitler's name, plus his leather briefcase and a few of his staff-meeting doodles. Frau Anni promptly announced that she would sell her cherished legacy to buy a café. Bavaria did not say what it planned to do with its inheritance...
...busy day Shaban eased his bulk into a café chair and poked at a dish of ice cream. His score for two days was 50 hospitalized, "mostly Communists." "We did better than the police and the soldiers together," Brainless boasted. "I know Shaban is a little rough," said Ardashir Zahedi, U.S.-educated son of the Premier, "but . . . he is against the Communists...
...musical numbers recall German café music of the hungry '20s. The artfully threadbare orchestration gives them a kind of tawdry elegance, as of faded Viennese waltzes with indecisive endings. Among the best: Pirate Jenny, appealingly rasped by Composer Weill's widow, Lotte Lenya,* dreaming of an escape from drudgery by joining a pirate crew; the Ballad of Dependency, in which Comedienne Charlotte Rae derides Macheath's virility...
Invitation. In Memphis, the Commercial Appeal carried this classified ad: "Café must be sacrificed . . . Owner has ulcerated stomach. Must sell at once . . ." Helpmeet. In Chicago, when his estranged wife charged him with desertion and sued for separate maintenance, George Layton, 71, told the court that she had plenty of money, got a court order requiring her to pay him $25 a week...
...news was hardly out that Party-Thrower Elsa Maxwell was planning to exclude the Duchess of Windsor from her forthcoming "Four-Duchess Ball" before café society reporters began circulating a statement reportedly made by the duchess: "It would take four ordinary duchesses to make one Duchess of Windsor!" From her Waldorf suite, Elsa denied she was even thinking of giving a ball, retorted: "Anyway, it's my prerogative to drop a duchess if I want to. I'm tired of duchesses-some duchesses...