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Word: cafe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dallas, "and I don't even drink coffee." Nevertheless, most companies who have polled their workers report that employees would rather have coffee in the office than fight jammed elevators and drugstores once or twice a day. Many executives even boast of serving better coffee than the cafe across the street. Says Vergil Finnell. a San Francisco coffee caterer: "A lot of companies now offer good, easy coffee as an inducement to the people they want to hire. It's become kind of a fringe benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COFFEE BREAK: New Industry Turns Problem into Profits | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...almost as much talent as for music. He shared an apartment with a French count, "had a little carriage and was thin as a stick because I never got to bed until morning." One evening Composer Paul (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) Dukas found him breakfasting in a cafe and insisted that he come at once to his studio. There he presented Rubinstein with a handful of pornographic pictures. "Why?" asked Artur. "Because that's the only thing you seem to be interested in these days," said Dukas. That slap in the face and the stern lecture that followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Magnetic Pole | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...board of Pennsylvania's Lukens Steel Co.; they had four children. Then he quit a Pennsylvania advertising job and bought Bermuda's Swizzle Inn, a rum-punch spot, later added a nightclub called Angel's Grotto. The genteel ginmill business put him in contact with Manhattan cafe society and entertainment types, and he began spending less time with staid Bermudians, more with exciting Americans. By last December his wife had divorced him; he had been named corespondent in a divorce suit, and was dating Royce Wallace, caramel-skinned veteran of seven Broadway shows and Manhattan hotspots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA: Ostracism | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Last week the zone's disenchanted nationalists gave Spanish Morocco its first taste of terrorism in years: a bomb burst in a Tetuan cafe, another was hurled at a bus. Demonstrators shouting for "independence and unity" stormed through Arcila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: The Disenchanted | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

Preventive War. In Los Angeles, Roy Campbell, 28, warily approached Brad's Cafe, which he had been caught looting four times before, noted another burglar at work, called police and pleaded: "Get out here quick and arrest this guy, or I know who you'll pick up tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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