Word: hangouts
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Ambitious son of a Swiss herdsman, César Ritz left home at 15 for a job emptying slops in small Paris hotels, moved on through other jobs till he became a manager. He quit to start at the bottom again in Paris' famed Restaurant Voisin, an international hangout for royalty and gourmets. There young César's instinct for the personal touch drew the attention of influential customers. During the siege of Paris in 1871, food was so scarce that the city zoo slaughtered its two elephants, of which Voisin's got the trunks. Thanks...
Lake Placid, home of the college week winter sports jamboree, is more a tobogganing and skating hangout than a ski resort. Although Mount Marcy, White Race, and Mount Jo have the best skiing in the Adirondacks, high living expenses, slow rope tow service, and difficult transportation facilities keep skiing at a minimum in this area.Skiing Photographs in this issue by Earl Scott '40Hillman's Highway, Mt. Washington, Now Hampshire, as soon from the ravine shelter, presents a formidable spectacle even to the expert...
...Skidmore: "A few precautions should be taken. . . . All is lost, if you try to take in the ponies [Skidmore is at Saratoga Springs] and the Skid girls the same weekend. They both flash those big brown eyes, and you're a broken man." ¶ Bryn Mawr: "Traditional hangout of scholarly women. . . . But girls are girls, these are just a little smarter." ¶ Bennington: ". . . The rules for progressive education clearly state that girls can party all night. . . . It's a long trip, but they could move Bennington to the Belgian Congo and we'd still...
Author Burns is at his best when remembering the shapes, sounds and smells of Naples, Algiers and Casablanca. His sections dealing with Naples' huge VD hospital and an evening spent in a homosexuals' hangout are first-rate. But too much of the best writing is descriptive reporting that does little to advance Gallery as a novel. Characters, good & bad, are used to prove a point or to support an emotional stand. With all its unevenness, Gallery shows more promise than most U.S. novels of World War II. But like many soldiers who came back itching to write...
...loaded the public payrolls with 65 of his relatives, made his brother Edward chief of police, exacted 3% salary kickbacks and complete humility from city employees. McFeely's trucks collected Hoboken's garbage (but so carelessly that goats followed them in the streets). His city became a hangout for prohibition-era gangsters. In time, he had a fortune...