Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro intellectuals usually live separated from one another, and most have settled into French life in a way that is rare for their white compatriots. At moments of acute homesickness, an American Negro may stop at the Café le Tournon, a student bistro near the Luxembourg where he will find similarly afflicted friends, or-tempted by the thought of barbecued spare ribs, corn bread and deep-dish apple pie-he will drop into Leroy & Gabby's, near the Place Pigalle...
...acquired the temperamental tag," she says. "I felt persecuted. I like to tell the story of the Southerner who came up to me and said: 'Loved your playing. I had a Negro mammy myself.' I snarled back, 'So did I.' " She had trouble with café owners, lost much of her following, finally decided she had better change her act. Says Dorothy: "Instead of just sitting there and playing, I've added personality. I feel I'm a new Dorothy Donegan...
...Jones (Gary Cooper), a onetime gunslinger who has been improving his character by homesteading for two decades, sets out on a train for Fort Worth to bring back a schoolteacher for his town. With him on the train are two other travelers with speaking roles-Julie London as a café singer, and Arthur...
...this vacation summer, nearly all the scars of war and memory seem to have faded. Occasionally a Frenchman will take malicious delight in giving a German the wrong directions, or a Dutchman will leave a café when it fills up with tourists in Lederhosen and Tyrolean hats. In Yugoslavia the Germans are welcome, if only because they assist Yugoslavia's acutely short consumer-goods market by selling their belongings as they go along. Observed an elderly Serb in Belgrade: "Germans can cross the border with a normal amount of personal belongings, spend a month here and return without...
...boomlet is that it was inspired abroad, but has since become a plump domestic business. Four years ago, 99% of the fancy foods was imported; today 40% is made in the U.S. Home-grown companies are cashing in in a dozen different ways. Manhattan's gilt-edged Café Chambord has warmed its cash registers by freezing its delicacies for retail sale, offers a full French line, from single portions of sauce Périgourdine ($1.25) and pompano Véronique ($4.50), to complete dinners for eight at $100 (sea food au gratin, duck au Grand Marnier, souffl...