Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cleveland, Lausche worked as a street-lamplighter for two dollars a week. His father, a steelworker, died when Frank was 14 and, as the second of ten children, Lausche took on much of the responsibility for supporting the family. He helped his mother run a small cafe, and he also found time to become a star third baseman on the Cleveland sandlots. Before serving as an Army second lieutenant during World War I, he played professional baseball, going as high as the old Class B New England League. He quit baseball and returned to Cleveland to attend night law classes...
...Stare, Stare, Stare." From the beginning it was almost inevitable that Marsh should devote his life to art. Born over a small cafe on Paris' Left Bank, the son of artist parents, Marsh was drawing before he was three. After Lawrenceville and Yale ('20), he got his first job as an artist for the New York Daily News, doing city scenes and theater sketches which, for Marsh, "took the place of an art school." When Marsh was 27. a trip to Paris and an introduction to the Louvre's old masters turned him seriously to painting...
...White to marry her. He sent her to finishing school instead, but before the term was out, Evelyn flounced off to Europe with a young Pittsburgh millionaire named Harry Kendall Thaw. It was a rough trip. Thaw was a mother's darling who had been turned loose on cafe society with too many marbles ($80,000 a year) in his pocket and not enough in his head. He was given to euphoric grandeurs-he once threw a $50,000 party for some French theater people-and sadistic glooms. With Evelyn he combined them: he rented an entire castle...
...girl with no home, Miss Tyler is taken under the care of Helen Traubel (Fauna), the kindly proprietor and procurer for the Bear Flag Cafe, which serves up any number of interesting dishes. Miss Traubel handles her role as well as her charges, and her full voice only occasionally fails to cross the footlights. She puts a hefty bounce into her lines and succeeds in her match-making, legal and otherwise...
...staunchest of these non-conformists is the Savoy Cafe, long the stronghold of solid, two-beat Dixie. It presently features a stomping group which plays its own version of old-fashioned tuba jazz. This nightspot, perhaps the hottest in town, still allows customers enough light to read on its table cards that it has no cover or minimum...