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...York cafe society likes them bar-worthy and it likes them rich. Fat little 22-year-old Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke qualifies on both counts. Mickey loves nightclubs, he is listed in the Social Register, and his father, Oleomargarine Magnate John Faris Jelke. of Chicago, has millions stashed away; Mickey himself is due to inherit a fortune when...
...free Finland, editorial writers may say what they like about Russia, but they carefully think before saying it. The cafe arguer may damn Stalin to his heart's content, but he makes a joke instead. Finland's President proclaims publicly in the bleak tones of a bank examiner: "Our relations with Russia are friendly." In private he says wistfully, "Finland is a Western nation." Finland refused Marshall Plan aid on the ground that that would be entering an alliance against Russia, but it accepted a U.S. loan. When a newsman remarked that this was a pretty fine distinction...
...spoke up to save I.S.C.M. They had trouble getting their work performed at home, and wanted the same kind of "protection and encouragement" that the older generation had had. The delegates of Australia, Chile, Israel, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden and the U.S. withdrew to a cafe and held a caucus. Their proposal, which the society later accepted: a five-man executive board to keep the I.S.C.M. going for another year. The average age of the new board members was 31-20 years younger than that of last year's officers...
...bank, drew out 485,000 Belgian francs ($9,700) of his employers' money in crackling banknotes, and with his usual care and sense of awe stuffed them into his briefcase. He felt giddy; his hand was sweaty, his throat dry. Clutching the briefcase, he hastened into a cafe, gulped a beer. In other cafes he had other beers, finally switched to port. Walking on rosy clouds, he passed a sandwichman who handed him an advertising circular. Suddenly the dream crystallized. Said Maxime: "You have given me something...
Spaghetti Boom. In Garland, Tex., Fred Harris put up a sign in his cafe: "Potato dinner $1.35. Big Idaho potatoes. Rest of meal free." Elsewhere, other restaurants began offering substitutes. Manhattan's elegant Chambord restaurant prepared to fly in potatoes from wherever they could find them...