Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (791 pp.) -Carson McCullers-Houghton Mifilin...
Died. Sam Maceo, 57, Italian immigrant who became a shady but glamorous Texas celebrity; of cancer; in Baltimore. After working as a barber in Galveston, Maceo opened a cafe, made a fortune as a Gulf Coast rumrunner, set up in Galveston (with brother Rose Maceo) some of the nation's gaudiest nightclubs and gambling joints frequented by show folk and millionaires...
...Among them: Manhattan's Copacabana, E Borracho, Cafe Louis XIV; Los Angeles' Giro's and Mocambo; Washington's Harvey's, Chicago's Blackhawk, Philadelphia's Bookbinder's, Boston Latin Quarter, Miami's Copa City...
...wealthy Canary Islands banana planter, he arrived in Paris at 21 to sell his father's produce. "I went out on one continuous binge for three months," he recalls, "and visited practically every cabaret, bistro and cafe in Paris. At 5 o'clock in the morning I usually turned up at the Halles [Paris' central market] dressed in a tuxedo and with a terrific hangover, and tried to sell father's bananas. Naturally he fired me, and gave me an allowance to copy the old masters in the Louvre. I found it perfectly easy to copy...
Burgeoning with a Breast. Dominguez graduated from the student-artist class the day he met Surrealist Andre Breton in 1935. Breton introduced him to the surrealist round table at the Cafe de la Place Blanche, where, in the course of fevered discussions with Picasso and Paul Eluard, he hit on some weird and wonderful notions. Dominguez rose to prominence in the group by such creations as a bas-relief of a horse inextricably tangled with a bicycle, and a "gramophone" with a forefinger in place of a needle and a female breast for a turntable...