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Restaurant Drouant, Place Gaillon. Monthly meeting place of the French literary club, the Académie Goncourt. Excellent seafood (coquille St. Jacques gratinée, lobster thermidor) and desserts (peach Melba, orange Jeanette). About...
...Afterward, Miller said there had been evidence of "illegal and improper attempts" to influence jurors, and he ordered a special grand jury investigation. In its indictment, the grand jury charged that Hoffa, through one co-conspirator or another, made these offers: - > To the son of a juror named Gratin Fields, $5,000 for himself and $5,000 for his father if the son would influence his father to vote for Hoffa's acquittal. > To the husband of another jury member, Mrs. James M. Paschal, help in getting a promotion (he was a state highway patrolman) if he would persuade...
...gilt-edged Café Chambord has warmed its cash registers by freezing its delicacies for retail sale, offers a full French line, from single portions of sauce Périgourdine ($1.25) and pompano Véronique ($4.50), to complete dinners for eight at $100 (sea food au gratin, duck au Grand Marnier, soufflé au chocolat...
...hours later Churchill was the President's host at dinner in the British Embassy. Truman came to the Churchill party from a fund-raising dinner where he had already faced seafood in aspic, petite marmite, filet mignon, stuffed artichokes, potatoes au gratin, chiffonade salad and baked Alaska. Somehow the President managed to make a respectable stab at the Embassy's consomme, Dover sole, saddle of veal, potatoes duchesse, cauliflower and charlotte pralinee. It was at this semipublic occasion-there were 16 British and American officials present-that Secretary of State Dean Acheson chose to lecture the Prime Minister...
Danny pays $3,500 a week to Goodman Ace, one of radio's top scripters, for such related versions of this gag as: "We have potatoes." "Oh, really?" "No, au gratin." Or, "My sister came from the southwest." "Oh, really?" "No, Oklahoma." Now, hardly a word beginning with "O" is safe...