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...RendÓn campaign began when a group of coffee-drinking intellectuals, who daily lounge in the wicker easy chairs of Mexico City's Café Paris, decided to nominate a "people's candidate." Candidate RendÓn decided to take the nomination seriously...
...RendÓn meets nightly with his rapidly increasing following in the Café Paris campaign headquarters, enthusiastically talks politics, even more enthusiastically passes the hat for the "campaign fund." The "fund" provides a better living than RendÓn's pick-me-ups as palm-reader, indifferent painter and author of paid panegyrics for real politicos. (He has gained eight pounds since his nomination...
Negotiations for other German documents were under way. In cafés and even in prison compounds, discredited diplomats, jobless generals and plain sad sacks talked copyright laws and literary prices. It was still an eighth wonder of the post V-E world that the Chicago Daily News had paid Edda Ciano $75,000 for her late husband's dreary diary...
Night in a Bar. He had been home a week before he decided to get drunk. He called up an old girl friend and they dropped into a café on Main Street. That was a mistake. The barflies began swarming all over him. They asked him questions about his service ribbons, about the Russians, about whether he had been scared and was he scared at the idea of going to the Pacific...
Lionel Johnson. Oscar Wilde said that any morning at eleven o'clock you might see Lionel Johnson come out very drunk from the Café Royal, and hail the first passing perambulator. Santayana met this young poet at Oxford. Johnson looked 16, was small, pale, with small, sunken, blinking eyes, sensitive mouth, pale brown hair, and rebellious ideas. He kept a jug of whiskey on the table between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana...