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Blonde: "I couldn't continue working because I didn't have any more money to pay off the porters at the Europejski Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Hard-Currency Girls | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...least a month. The girls, as it happens, are not on trial but are witnesses for the prosecution. The state has called on them to testify against nine bellhops and doormen who are charged with shaking down prostitutes prospecting for customers at Warsaw's most expensive hotel, the Europejski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Hard-Currency Girls | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...bars of the Alcron and the Yalta in Prague are notorious hunting grounds for the freelance free-enterprisers. At the Intercontinental in Bucharest, the girls sometimes cruise for clients in the elevators. At Warsaw's Europejski they are even more aggressive. Last May, during President Nixon's visit to Warsaw, two white-haired British correspondents were literally chased to their rooms by a bevy of miniskirted whores who spent hours unsuccessfully banging on their doors and bellowing entreaties in basic English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Hard-Currency Girls | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...fascinating fragment of testimony in the Warsaw trial established that there is at least some spirit of cooperation between Polish officialdom and prostitutes working the Europejski. A redhead testified that last year one of the accused doormen refused to let a group of harlots into the hotel unless each paid him 100 zloties ($5). She said that one of the girls got angry and made a telephone call. "Then a lady from the Interior Ministry [which runs the Polish secret police] came over to the hotel and took care of everything," the girl said. "Did the doorman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Hard-Currency Girls | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...Warsaw it rained early in the week. Waiting for the opening of the $1,000,000 Slujec Race Track in a few days, young bucks were spending their zlotys in swanky hotels like the Bristol and the Europejski, at cabarets along the Nowy Swiat, where thinly clad Czech performers were popular, and a Silesian polka called Trojaki was a hit. On the flat dark lands of Poland, rye, owing to the spring rains, looked like a record crop. Over the Carpathians in Rumania the 3,078,820 peasant families -more than 1,000,000 of them living in plain clay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Springtime in Europe | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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