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...Cafe Noir...
...those interested in further facts re your PEOPLE item [Aug. 26], here they are: In 1960 1 offered $1,500,000 to the city of New York for the purpose of building a sidewalk cafe at the east end of Central Park South, near Fifth Avenue. Every relevant department of the city accepted the gift. I deposited over $800,000 with the city, as good faith, where it remained until recently without earning interest. I paid an architect fee of over $100,000 to Edward Stone...
...start, Walter Moving, chairman of the board of Tiffany's, and others, sued the city to prevent it, claiming a misuse of park land. For almost five years, they carried their case through the courts of New York State, with no success whatever. In 1965, when the cafe was again about to be built, Mayor Lindsay came into office. He at once appointed Walter Hoving's son Thomas as the new Parks Commissioner, and flatly turned down the cafe. Mr. Thomas Hoving then suggested to me that I give my money to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn...
...squanders her family's meager monthly handouts on dining at a cafe or on rides in a hansom cab. After befriending an agreeable demi-prostitute and paving the primrose path for her grandson, she develops a haphazard taste for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes. She eventually sells off her furniture, buys a jaunty little car, and finances a Communist cobbler who yearns to open a self-service shoe store. Before death overtakes her, the cheeky septuagenarian has lived two lives-one being the long years of servitude as daughter, wife and mother, the other made...
From two to five times a week Javits commutes from Washington to New York. Last week, for example, he was in Manhattan for a cafe society Shakespeare Festival revel (see MODERN LIVING), flew down to the capital early the next morning. The Senator's heavy travel schedule is wearing and inconvenient, though it suits Marion, who refuses to live in Washington. After enduring the capital for a few months when he was a freshman Congressman, she fled back to Manhattan and has lived there ever since. "Washington," she said, "is a factory town...