Word: romes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notice, while reading the Atlantic Edition of TIME (Sept. 21) in Rome, that you printed a picture of Professor Emelyanov that is not Professor Emelyanov's picture. My secretary at Notre Dame can supply you with a wide selection of good ones...
...Right, Jack. New restaurants and coffee bars, supermarkets and service stations were mushrooming in cities; in suburban subdivisions, new houses priced from $6,000 to $12,000 often sold before the foundations were laid. In offices and factories, bulletin boards were gay with postcards from vacationing workers in Rome, Majorca, the Costa Brava...
...Europe there is no street quite so lively, quite so cosmopolitan or quite so zany as Rome's Via Veneto-the broad, tree lined avenue known to Italy's American colony as "the Beach." And for a decade past, the heart of the Beach has been the polyglot, block-long Caffé Doney. There in the soft Roman night, Italians and tourists alike sat till the wee hours beneath bright sidewalk umbrellas, sipping whisky, apéritifs or coffee, and watching the Via Veneto's endless parade of smartly dressed girls, pomaded gigolos and international celebrities, ranging...
...tight slacks, wild hairdos, and exude the sort of animal magnetism that , draws crowds on the Via Veneto. Another Di Nozzi inspiration was the ivory telephones that Café de Paris waiters plug in at the tables. This won the Café de Paris the patronage of many of Rome's ubiquitous movie agents, one of whom cheerily explained: "I can get on the horn there if I want...
...loudspeakers. Says a less exalted Roman who recently abandoned his longtime table at Doney's: "I like Americans. But I like my Roman friends, too. And the place to see them is at the Café de Paris." Inevitably, more and more Americans in Rome are beginning to take the same line. Said one two-week tourist: "I like to watch strange people, so I go to the Café de Paris. Doney's is too touristy...