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...Trouble was, complained the island's merchants, the strollers were window-shopping and little else. "Sales have dropped 50%," wailed the owner of two woolens shops. "This is not an island, it's a desert," snarled a tobacconist. "They're trying to make a graveyard," complained Restaurateur Otello Caporicci, "out of the historical center of Rome." The aggrieved merchants banded together, turned out the lights in their shopwindows in protest. Some restaurants even served food by candlelight. Meanwhile, outside the island, traffic piled up on the perimeter in an angry, tooting wall of vehicles, often preventing even...
Married. Lana Turner, 44, still well-knit Hollywood Sweater Girl (Love Has Many Faces); and Robert Eaton, 34, Hollywood businessman; he for the third time, she for the sixth (her others: Bandleader Artie Shaw, Restaurateur Stephen Crane, Tin Millionaire Bob Topping, Movie Tarzan Lex Barker, Rancher Fred May); in Arlington...
Bertha, Bettina & Dodo. It is owned and operated by Alain Bernardin, a successful restaurateur who decided to branch out into the nightclub business and wanted a Wild West décor. Although he had never visited the U.S., he went to see a dozen western films, all of them by Universal Pictures. "They always had saloons in those films, and since they always had the same set, it was always the same saloon," he recalls. "I copied it for mine." But business dragged, so Bernardin decided to enliven it with striptease. Again he haunted the cinema and found...
...year, while wholesale-food prices climbed only 2.8%. Such flagrant padding is noticeably adding to the growing disenchantment of many tourists with France. But bistro owners are nevertheless enraged at the new order. "French culinary art is being suffocated by government intervention," said a Parisian restaurateur. Another suggested that there are ways to get around the order: "You want to increase the price of tournedos? All you have to do is christen it 'Cote de Boeuf Henri IV' and the trick is done...
Boxes for Tiaras. So many bag toters cling to the pious fiction that they are taking the filet home to Fido that almost every restaurateur has a story about the child who pipes up: "But when are we getting a dog, Mommy?" Exasperated waiters have been known to take revenge on such hypocrites by stuffing their Bowser Bags with bones and other morsels that only a dog would appreciate, or else by putting in strawberry shortcake and similar goodies designed to send a canine to an early grave. Zaberers' Old Gables Inn in Atlantic City simply labels its containers...