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...Stein at Sylvia Beach's Paris bookshop, Hemingway plainly enjoyed being a celebrity among celebrities. He went fishing with Charles Ritz, the Paris hotel man, and considered fighting a duel over Ava Gardner, whose honor somebody had insulted. In Paris he invariably cultivated Georges Carpentier, the prizefighter turned saloon owner; in New York he befriended Restaurateur Toots Shor, and despite an often-expressed desire for privacy, went on the town with Gossip Columnist Leonard Lyons. He not only allowed but encouraged the world to turn him into a character. He had well-publicized talks about child care with Grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hero of the Code | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...dictated many choices. The guide puts "21," which has fallen on indifferent days, and Baroque (good French cuisine) in the same five-star category as Chambord and Pavilion, two of the world's great restaurants. Arrant nonsense is the three-star billing of P.J. Moriarty's, a saloon with no-star food, compared to the two-star ratings of the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel, Mercurio or Copain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Potluck on the Road | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...appetite-and pocketbook-had grown large. He cast an envious eye on a big bunch of Russells, then housed cozily in a fine old Great Falls, Mont., saloon called The Mint. The people of Montana belatedly tried to raise the money to outbid Carter and keep the artist's work in the state he adopted, but Carter won. He hung his acquisitions in his club, at the newspaper, in the Fort Worth library, the airport terminal. His will stipulated that they should eventually have their own museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Museum of Yippee-Yi-Yo | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

Success Unpredictable. Chief aspirant to Lumumba's mantle is Antoine Gizenga, 39, a onetime schoolteacher and an all-out proCommunist. Gizenga founded a small anticolonialist party in a Léopoldville saloon two years ago, later flitted off to Prague's Institute for African Studies. His party won 13 Parliament seats in last year's election. He tossed them to Lumumba, and Lumumba made him Vice Premier. Since shortly after his boss's arrest last December, Gizenga has run the show from the Eastern province river capital of Stanleyville (and to one recent visitor, he remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Death of Lumumba--& After | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Yorkers, she is the tireless worker for interracial amity who was once a director of the National Urban League. To Democrats, she is a dedicated campaigner and state committeewoman whose tastefully opulent town house in 1952 became the salon of her party's intellectual shadow Cabinet and the saloon of the rank and file. Recalls one New York leader: "I shall never forget the sight of the Trees' English butler, Collins, dying by stately inches at the thought of what that mass of Democrats could do to the house, or of Ronnie Tree, stiff, perspiring, and apprehensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1961 | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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