Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fall from Fortune. A few days later, on a telephoned tip, two Paris police inspectors spotted a dignified, dapper little father walking his boys (age 4 and 12) in the sunny Bois. They waited till he was sitting pina?" they alone at a asked. cafe. "C'est moi," "Monsieur answered Della-le petit gros, "I'll follow you. But please don't tell my boys what I've done." At police headquarters the inspectors found that their prisoner was a Corsican refugee from the police of Marseille, who wanted him for the murder...
Shelley has been deported so often for misbehavior that she is now down to her last island. Blackmailer Cognac (Luther Adler) hires her to sing in his cafe, and to sweet-talk Macdonald Carey out of some information on a wartime Jap rubber-smuggling deal...
...Stone also has trouble giving credibility to her part. This is especially apparent because she has chosen to do the whole thing in a deep Texas drawl which is neither convincing nor natural. Jack Warden, the only leftover from the original repertory production, is about as convincing a Texas cafe owner as a New York cab driver might have been in the same role...
...picked a heaping basketful of coffee cherries. The cherries came from one of the trees that Cowgill, as chief of the coffee section of the joint U.S.-Guatemalan agricultural development project, had carefully tended for nearly four years. When the cherries were beaten, washed, dried, scraped, and reduced to cafe en oro (the exportable bean), visiting coffee planters could hardly believe their eyes. From the same species of tree, Coffea arabica, they-and most other Latin American producers-had seldom harvested much more than a pound of beans per tree. Cowgill's yield: a whopping...
Back to the Cafe. Karfiol's style has grown steadily softer and warmer, but it has not changed. Nowadays he paints in Manhattan, spends his weekends with his wife, son and two grandchildren in Irvington, N.Y., and his summers in Ogunquit, Maine. "I'm saving my pennies to go back to Paris again," he says. "I want to go back to the Cafe de Dome...