Word: caf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Killing the Splendor. The same sad sounds are heard from other voices, other rooms. Ray Castro, owner of four top Chicago restaurants (Jacques, Maison Lafite, Café de Paris, La Maisonette), has canceled plans to open a $150,000 supper club, says that the decline in his business during the past three months means that he will pay $21,000 less in taxes and his employees will get considerably reduced bonuses. In Detroit's fanciest restaurants, the London Chop House and the Caucus Club, business is off about 25%, and the entertainment has been reduced accordingly. At Trader...
...woman customer listened idly one afternoon last week while a thickset, somberly dressed stranger used the public telephone at. La Esmeralda café, across the square from Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral. "This is the S.A.O.," he barked. "Yes, the S.A.O. We're giving you Argoud. He betrayed us, bungled all the jobs he was supposed to organize, particularly the Petit-Clamart affair. You can take delivery of him now. He's in a blue truck in the alley opposite Notre-Dame...
...father, mother and sister are engineers, and in an effort to hold his own in such a professional household he trained for medicine and then switched to law. He practiced law desultorily, but much preferred to haunt the artists' cafés of Milan. In one of them, while sitting on a barrel with his feet in a basin of white wine, Baj (pronounced buy) met a painter named Sergio Dangelo. He dropped the law, took up art full time, and joined Dangelo in forming something called the "Nuclear Movement" in painting...
...times again. He paid his own respects to the times by putting together The Night Club Era, a book that sorrowed over the boozy glamour of "the good old days" in New York, and Mrs. Astor's Horse, a hard-eyed appreciation of the city's café society...
...belong to West Germany's top movie stars, including Curt Jürgens and Caterina Valente. After Nadja Tiller settled into a handsome hillside villa in Ticino, Actress Romy Schneider picked up a palatial lakeside chateau; not to be outdone, Romy's father bought a local café, installed a bevy of blonde waitresses and operated it for a while as a "Viennese dance hall...