Word: kaffeeklatsches
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...Imperial Valley.) To help get him known to the new Riverside residents, Saund's wife, son, two daughters and a couple of in-laws have conducted a prodigiously successful registration drive, adding 6,500 new voters to the county rolls in eleven weeks. Saund himself travels tirelessly from Kaffeeklatsch to luncheon talk to dinner speech in his six-year-old Buick (he has pitted two windshields in sandstorms, added 26,000 miles since the campaign began), likes to stop along the way to talk to field hands, construction workers, just about anyone else who will listen. His specialty...
...garment factory, said she had joined the Communist Party in 1937 because she was lonely and it offered friends. "I never intended to bring about a revolution," she said. "I never found Communism to be a conspiracy. Out here in this rural area it was more of a Kaffeeklatsch." Mrs. Landy said she quit the party about eight years ago, but still misses her comrades. Why. then, did she leave them? Said she: "He [Eugene] gave me an ultimatum-to quit or he would leave home; to choose between him and the party." Then she added: "I chose him." Which...
...return to Prague as the party's dreaded "Grey Eminence." He has a direct line to the Kremlin, until the line is ruthlessly twisted around his neck. For long stretches. Author Wechsberg takes his eyes off Slansky-Stern to sketch in personal memories of how the easygoing Kaffeeklatsch world of his youth was laced into the straitjacket of Red tyranny. The book is good reporting. There is only one bone to pick with Wechsberg's theme-other and better novelists have already picked its bones...
...blackmailed him into signing an untrue confession. If pressed, he would add: "To me, public life is a profession. If you were going to seek medical advice, you wouldn't ask the doctor about his private life. You would simply pick the best doctor." Last week his Kaffeeklatsch-and-candor campaign paid off with a 6-to-1 victory in the Democratic primary. Jimmy is almost sure to win in November, unless, as often happens in soap operas, the problems pile up again...
...Kaffeeklatsch. Al Rothschild, president of the Rothschild Co. department store, second largest in Rock Island, Ill. (pop. 48,710), has served 40,000 cups of coffee and 40,000 cookies free to shoppers since last October. Starting his plan as a goodwill gesture, Rothschild offered $125 a month to any women's church group that would volunteer to do the serving, has had plenty of takers. The snack is served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, has helped boost sales in Rothschild's 16-month-old store as much...