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Squeamish diners have long made spoon polishing a nervous ritual, and almost everywhere a dirty café is called a "greasy spoon." But an investigation of restaurant hygiene in Connecticut has shown that, of all dinnerware, the spoon is most to be trusted; it is the bar glass that is furthest from grace. In swab tests conducted in nearly 1,000 restaurants, investigators found high bacteria counts on bar glasses "almost commonplace." A count of 100 bacteria per utensil is thought to be a safe level; bar glasses regularly approached counts of 3,000. And spoons were almost uniformly clean...
Other states are no better. Most state health codes closely follow the U.S. Public Health Service code, but health authorities, always short of inspectors, can not watch restaurant and café proprietors closely enough. "All restaurant owners know what they're supposed to do," says the chief of Atlanta's inspectors. "They just...
Madame Bourdelle, now 79, still devotes her life to her husband, who died 32 years ago. She recalls how he would get up at 4 in the morning to plunge into his work, how he would almost never accompany his friends to the cafés ("I get drunk another way," he would say), and how she would not let him out of the house with more than 20 francs in his pocket because he was forever giving money away to the poor. "He made himself a great man." Madame Bourdelle says, "The man was at least as great...
...summit meeting of Café Society? No, but the next best thing: the transformation of Hog into Paradise Island and the opening of a brand-new Caribbean resort that features a 52-suite hotel, golf course, statuary in the gardens. Tennis Pro Pancho Gonzales on the courts, and the word PEACE on all of the matchbooks. The champagne, the swimming, the golf and the jet were all provided free, at a cost of more than $100,000, by handsome A. & P. Heir George Huntington Hartford II, 50, a shy, mystical and misty multi-millionaire who is devoting himself...
...hair like black velvet. At 47, Gloria Rubio von Furstenberg Guinness is a classic example of a woman who knows what money can do-and does it with grace. Her husband is related to the famed Guinness brewing clan and is a multimillionaire (banking, airplanes, etc.). They scorn café society's more redolent haunts; they are just rich people who maintain a bejeweled private life, do nothing deliberately to attract publicity...