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...heads in Havana. The three large general stores are gone, and so is the bank, the high school, the drugstore and practically everything else. The Catholics and Methodists no longer have a church, but the Congregationalists and the Lutherans have hung on. Two years ago the restaurant, the Havana Cafe, went belly-up. For a while there the farmers shifted to the Standard Oil station down by the railroad -- now the Burlington Northern rather than the Great -- for morning coffee, but it got so crowded you couldn't curse a cat without getting a hair in your mouth, and finally...
EXPECTING. Mariel Hemingway, 25, lissome actress (Manhattan, Personal Best, Star 80) and granddaughter of Novelist Ernest Hemingway, and her husband Stephen Crisman, 37, who supervises Sam's Cafe, the couple's fashionable New York City restaurant: their first child; in December...
...improved, the Norton Anthology of Pretentious Literature contains twice as much angst and symbolism as the previous edition. More than 1,000 pages of authors overreaching themselves in the quest for metaphysical absolutes: Beckett, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, Doeblin, Ashbury, Joyce and many other favorites of the cafe society...
More rebellious customers have taken action. At Larry Parker's pricey 24- Hour Diner one recent afternoon, an annoyed patron yanked a woman's hair as he walked out because she refused to put out her cigarette. At Cafe Beverly Hills, an upscale coffee shop, an elderly man punched his female companion when she told him he must snuff his cigar. "I've been smoking for 92 years," said the patron. "No one is going to tell me where I can smoke...
...about equal measure," cost only a nickel to ride. Grover Whalen, a flamboyant Irishman with a flower in his lapel, was glad-handing the visiting firemen as the city's official greeter, while saturnine Robert Moses, the master builder, was sundering neighborhoods in the name of progress. The cafe-society swells watered at El Morocco or the Stork Club, and the punters headed for Toots Shor's, mindful of the proprietor's dictum that "a bum who ain't drunk by midnight ain't trying." It was, in short, a wonderful town...