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...Little Pool. Gleason's historic hangout is Toots Shor's restaurant, which reopens on a new site this week on Manhattan's West 52nd Street with Gleason figuring centrally in the ceremonies. "After all," says Jackie, "I'm the elder statesman of the joint." A close friend of Shor for more than 20 years, Gleason calls him Clamhead. He has long since earned Shor's highest accolade: "Jackie drinks good...
Very French. Big names still show up, too: Thornton Wilder, Gene Kelly, William Shirer, James Jones. Playwright Brendan Behan even turns up sober. But, a good part of the present clientele is French. Jean-Paul Sartre and his constant companion, Simone de Beauvoir, make Harry's their regular hangout. Françoise Sagan uses Harry's for her tristes, and so do a growing number of young French playwrights, film directors and actors...
...headed by famed Belkacem Krim. Moving on to Algiers, Ben Khedda helped plan and carry out the ruthless terrorist campaign in which killings of Europeans ran as high as a hundred a month. He lived under four aliases, grew a large mustache, boldly frequented the Cafe Otomatic, a favorite hangout of European rightists. The F.L.N. grip on Algiers was not broken until the summer of 1957. when General Jacques Massu and his French paratroops began to match terror with terror. Ben Khedda escaped a Massu dragnet by ducking down a manhole and dodging his way through the city...
Cold weather hangout for the Florida-vacationing Kennedy clan is Joe Kennedy's 16-room winter home on Millionaires' Row in Palm Beach. Modest by local Taj Mahal standards, the house has a simple, lived-in look. The living room furniture is slipcovered in durable green and white flowered chintz and is arranged, says one reporter, so that "there are aisles for the children to run through." As in all the Kennedy homes, the center of activities is outdoors, by the tennis court and swimming pool. From poolside, Joe Kennedy telephones around the U.S. to his children...
...Young Orestes, in The Return, is not the man his Sophoclean namesake was. Unlike Clytemnestra. his mother has not killed her husband; she has merely taken up with a fake faith healer while her soldier-husband is missing in war. Her house has become a near-brothel and a hangout for all sorts of scurvy types. To Eugenia, the latter-day Electra, hating her mother's vulgarity and unfaithfulness, life is agony. Their violent quarrels have become a way of life, to be ended, Eugenia believes, only when Brother Orestes comes back from the university to set things right...