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...been a long day of walking for you, and you've earned a mighty supper. The top five restaurants are probably Locke-Ober's ($8.50 for lobster savannah; wait for your rich uncle to visit you), Joseph's, Red Coach Grille, Durgin Park (the roast beef, by all means), and Jimmy's Harborside (for seafood). Boston has a small Chinatown, about four blocks long, running off Washington St.; the House of Roy is one among several good restaurants in the area. For Italian food, it's Carmen's an as yet little known walk-up on Charles St., small, intimate...
Other dining places, for visitors with an adventurous palate, are the Athens-Olympia (Greek), the Nile (Syrian), Chez Lucien (French), and the South Seas (Polynesian). But in the end, after heart-burn and indigestion, everyone usually returns to Elsie's for her immortal fifty cent roast-beef special...
Travel agents, steamship companies and airlines are reaching way out to bring in the faraway answers. A safari with Baffin Island Eskimos. A climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Shooting expeditions in Nepal. Eat roast monkey with the Yagua Indians of the Amazon, and watch them shoot poisoned darts. Fly over Victoria Falls. A traveler can subscribe to a sort of Island-of-the-Month Club, called Islands in the Sun, that briefs its members on the latest and the best. Bachelor Party Tours, clipper voyages to the Seven Seas, motor caravans from Singapore to Istanbul, Tramp Trips...
...chuck roast...
...soul who just sort of lambs around." The trouble is that Russell was too literal-minded; gigot means merely "leg of mutton," and bilingual Frenchmen are wondering in some puzzlement whether Americans would laugh if Tati, for instance, made a movie in the U.S. and called himself "Rolled Rib Roast...