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...Capri. At Capri, he found the kind of prewar bargain which expatriates used to brag about. His hotel suite (large bedroom, bathroom, private balcony) looked out over pink stucco villas toward the island of Ischia. The room and meals cost 1,400 lire ($1.75 black market) a day. A day was like this: breakfast (coffee and hot milk, fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta...
...From Capri, he flew to Lisbon and back to the U.S. Last week, he was home again in San Francisco.The five weeks in Europe had cost him exactly $300, plus $1,052 in plane fares. On a vacation that had completely missed Europe's hunger, he had only one bit of financial hard luck: he lost 12,000 black-market francs on roulette at Monte Carlo...
Back to Manhattan from her first postwar inspection of her villa in Capri came best-dressed Mrs. Harrison Williams, in what the tabloid Daily Mirror called "a pale beige wool dress, with a deeper-than-usual neckline and longer-than-usual skirt." How had she found things? Said she: "A great many things are gone, including a most wonderful wine cellar. Not a bottle remains." But she kept her chin up. "C'est la guerre," said Mrs. Williams...
...strength of his past record, but turned him loose when OWI-man Percy Winner, once with I.N.S. in Rome, guaranteed his good conduct. He then toured Germany on a special mission for the Allied Psychological Warfare Branch. Now ex-Fascist Malaparte lives well in his flashy Capri villa. Kaputt, whatever the doubts as to its reliability, is a great hit in Italy, has become must reading in fashionable clubs and salons...
...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...