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Frenchmen called it Le New York, Americans the Paris Herald. It was as much a Parisian fixture as the Café de la Paix, as American as the Toonerville Trolley. Founded in 1887 by James Gordon Bennett, the younger, the New York Herald Tribune, European edition, was essentially a small-town paper. It carefully avoided controversies, scrupulously reported "personals" about the rich and famous...
...mess has been set up, which keeps bodies and souls joined but leaves us completely unsatisfied. (The chef has managed to destroy the old myth that you can give a Frenchamn even Army rations and he will make something tasty out of them.) But the Café de la Paix is just around the corner and gets a good deal of our trade...
...most heartwarming homecoming of the week was reported by Helen Kirkpatrick of the Chicago Daily News, which also cheered homesick U.S. tourists and expatriates before the war with a Paris edition in English. Of her discoveries at 21 rue de la Paix, she wrote...
There were no eggs for omelettes at La Mère Poulard's famous restaurant on Mont-Saint-Michel. Customers shivered in the cold behind the glass winter windows of the Café de la Paix, the Deux Magots...
Died. Jacques Bustanoby, 62, famed pre-World War I restaurateur (Café de la Paix); in Manhattan. He and brothers Pierre, André and Louis rode the crest of extravagant wining and dining in Manhattan before Prohibition, introduced dinner dances, the first women's bar in the city, lured Vernon and Irene Castle as entertainers. Rudolph Valentino as a $10-a-week gigolo...