Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...songs and scores of gushing, Viennese-style operettas; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his hotel suite in Manhattan. An immigrant from Hungary, he started out at 22 in a Manhattan pencil factory at $7 a week, advanced to a pianist's job in a Second Avenue cafe at a salary of $15 plus all the goulash he could eat. Before long he was writing tunes for his own orchestra, caught the attention of Broadway's Shuberts, who asked him to write a musical. The Whirl of the World (1913) was an immediate success...
...Chicago, Deibel's first stop was at Chenoa, Ill. at Steve's Cafe. "Best steaks on Route 66," he claims, with the truck driver's air of finality about such matters. There he had time for his meal, no time for trivial talk. A short distance behind him rolled another Consolidated truck, with a "straight load"-goods without such a demanding time schedule. If #684 were to break down, they would switch trailers and the other driver would haul TIME to St. Louis. It hasn't happened...
...strategic withdrawal, Gabin retires to Cherbourg, where he owns a cafe and movie house, but the barmaid and complications follow him. Finally, Gabin packs his mistress off to Paris, gets the despairing young man a job as hairdresser on the Queen Mary and, happily resigned, leads the still-virtuous barmaid to the altar...
...Ballad of the Sad Cafe, by Carson McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...
...high black boots. Often columns of them, with the iron tops of their boots clicking rhythmically against the sidewalk, pass by. They keep their gaze straight ahead, and their faces deadpanned. Occasionally, some 19 year-old in the platoon sneaks a glance at the customers in a sidewalk cafe to catch their reaction. Most of the patrons feign unconcern...