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...work. With far less aid than the Greek government had from the U.S., they had not only held out in their crags but had grown in numbers and vigor. In two years they had multiplied tenfold. They had raided and ravaged, living a hard mountain life unsolaced by Athenian cafés. A motley collection of uprooted folk, they had no status quo to preserve, no hopes to lose. Consequently they fought as desperate men. Their mission was akin to that of Communists everywhere: to uproot their countrymen, to spread despair, to kill hope, to smother enterprise, to prevent...
...bronze and marble conference halls of Cuba's Capitolio Nacional the delegates paid lip service to the ideals of the Geneva draft; but the real news was made in the cafés and lobbies where, over their frozen daiquiris, the delegates were busy planning more restrictions. The Moslem countries prepared a Middle East Bloc, to be developed by a series of government five-and twelve-year plans; the Argentines wanted a similar preference bloc in South America; the Soviet satellites (three of whom had sent representatives to Havana even though Russia had not) talked of further tightening their...
Stripper Georgia Sothern, who had been warned by the cops to slow down (TIME, March 8), ground to a halt at Manhattan's Club Samoa. Police who came back to catch her act revoked her café working permit. Georgia amplified her own interpretation of her art: "[The cops] claimed I did grinds-grinds is when a girl stands still and rolls her hips all around. I didn't do grinds. . . . What I do is a takeoff on the old-style bumps. ... A burlesque on burlesque, see? Strictly for the laughs and no panting...
...seven years as Mrs. Sears, Eva made many friends and picked up one of those nicknames which women of café society wear like amusing jewelry. Hers was "Bobo." The Searses lived in Boston, where Bobo did war relief work; in Los Angeles, where she played minor roles in motion pictures; and finally in Paris, where Sears was third secretary in the U.S. embassy. Eighteen months ago, at a dinner party given by Mrs. Elizabeth ("Liz") Whitney, Bobo met Winthrop Rockefeller...
...wedding reception preceded the wedding, too. A goodly segment of café society was there: the Duke & Duchess of Windsor; "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the restaurant world's most famed pretender; onetime Glamor Deb Brenda Frazier Kelly; Rail Tycoon Robert R. Young and his wife; and the Marquess of Blandford...