Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this doesn't make for much opportunity for Jolson to sing. Eventually, however, World War II intervenes, and he volunteers to entertain the armed forces. There are scenes of Jolson singing "Four Leaf Clover" in an Aleutian quonset hut and "Chinatown" under Tunisian palms; at length, he collapses with fever, and is flown home, where he falls in love with his nurse, (Barbara Hale...
Cronin's is Cronin's and Clarke's Sea Grill is uncrowded. You should know where both are located. If you're a visitor, ask any Harvard student. Almost any Chinese restaurant downtown in Chinatown can fix you up with chopsticks and an authentic menu. The food is good...
...tale of the meeting between Colonel Bykov and Hiss was in the best spy-thriller tradition: the meeting took place in a Brooklyn movie theater and the trio then moved surreptitiously to a Chinatown cafée. There, according to Chambers, Hiss agreed to get documents from the State Department for the Russian...
...looking more like the inside of an old Moulmein pagoda than a retail store, S. & G. Gump Co., the pride of Post Street, was Westernizing itself. On its temple-quiet second floor, the famed Treasure, Ivory, Porcelain and Lotus rooms, which had ranked with the Cliff House and Chinatown as S&iA Francisco tourist attractions, were ruthlessly torn out. Gump's was spending $150,000 to streamline one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient...
Four Men at a Booth. After that, for a while, the gorillas lay low. They were on the prowl one hot afternoon last week when Willie Lurye went into the ground-floor lobby of a Chinatown loft to make a phone call. Traffic was heavy in the building and nobody noticed anything wrong until the man at the cigar stand saw Willie come out of the booth, walk with painful erectness toward the door, call out "Tony" in a strangled voice. Tony was Tony Milletti, another organizer...