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...indifferent to the S.A.O. resolve to keep Algeria French. But for the past month, the S.A.O. has been under attack by a band of newcomers nicknamed barbouzes (bearded ones). They began by machine-gunning the cars in which S.A.O. men blatantly drove around Algiers. Next, they bombed 17 cafés patronized exclusively by the S.A.O. Barbouzes are credited with the "disappearance" of several S.A.O. chieftains...
Guitar atwangle, eyes aimed into a far corner, the voice pitched in a keening wail, the singer holds the rapt attention of the shaggy boys, girls and dogs scattered around his Greenwich Village pad. In a campus dormitory in Ohio, in a café alonng San Francisco's North Beach, in a living room in upper-class Grosse Pointe, Mich., other singers with guitars chant tales of tragic love. In fact, all over the U.S., people of all descriptions-young and middleaged, students, doctors, lawyers, farmers, cops-are plucking guitars and moaning folk songs, happily discovering that they...
...invited him to his inauguration. Every ballplayer worth his mitt got the de luxe, or crumb-bum treatment, and even Bernard Baruch, elder statesman of the stock market ticker, benched down at Shor's now and then. But Toots made no attempt to attract the glossier types of café society. "Who needs ya?" he bellowed cheerily...
Exhumed & Examined. The legend of Marie Besnard began in the gossip mills of Loudun. Over the years, Marie and her husband Léon had inherited from relatives six houses, two farms, an inn and a café. Amid all this affluence, Léon invited his mistress, Loudun Postmistress Louise Pintou, to move in with him and his wife. But when it was whispered that Marie herself took a lover-a former German prisoner of war 30 years her junior-Léon apparently protested. Several days later, after becoming violently ill over lunch, Léon died; local...
...Broadway 2 by Saroyan mates Talking to You, a brief, touching, one-act parable of Good and Evil, with Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning, a full, hilarious, one-act serving of prime Time of Your Life Saroyantics. As a waiter in a zany café, Milt Kamen is enormous fun to be with...