Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 15,000 policemen in Western Germany, Austria, Italy and the Scandinavian countries peered into cafés, bordellos, hotels, airports. The search spread to Cyprus and Malta; Egypt's police were watching the entire western desert coastline...
...friends in the labor movement came to the rescue. Eva Duarte had run away from an impoverished household in rural Junin to seek a career in the Buenos Aires theater. Though at first she wangled only a few small parts in radio and the movies, she got around in café society and made many an influential friend. One night in 1943, she met Juan Perón, then an eligible widower, at a radio party. Before many months, Colonel Perón moved into a new apartment in fashionable Calle Posadas; Eva Duarte had an apartment there, too. Evita...
...Greenwich Village's Café Society last week, she gave her nightclub fans a prayer dance first. "That makes the audience think 'Here is a person who is serious,' " Pearl says. "Once I show them my dignified side, I can be as wild as I feel." When she got down to the "strength" and "fertility" dances, her thrusting, thumping power, matched to the savage beat of a hand-patted African drum, was wild enough to stand the customer's hair on end. It was all certified genuine: "Everything I do is consistent with what...
...King Zog. Since 1948, about 500 Albanians have escaped into Yugoslavia, many of whom have found haven in Titograd, the new provincial capital the Montenegrins are building on the ruins of Podgorica, which was razed by British bombers in World War II. Sipping thick Turkish coffee in a Titograd café last week, one of the refugees, a country storekeeper, said: "Police came to me and demanded 2,000,000 lek [$4,000]. I told him I didn't have it. They sent me to jail in Scutari. They chained my arms together underneath my knees and threatened...
...right words for the newest French import. Wrote one: "She sounds like Edith Piaf [TIME, Oct. 3, 1949] but looks like a younger edition of Peggy Hopkins Joyce." Tried another: "A young Piaf, but pretty." Meanwhile, blonde Marjane (short for Marie Jane Thérese Gendebian) had Manhattan café socialites begging for more of her songs...