Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Houses are not always homes; neither are sandwich shops, but behind the counter of Elsie's Lunch, on the corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke Streets, two people try to make the small shop as much like an informal home kitchen as possible. Whether their customer has a hunger pang or a hangover, Elsie and Henry Baumann stand ready to create a mammoth sandwich or to mix a Bromo-Seltzer...
...seven months, Elsie and Henry has made the sandwich shop a thriving business. Their popularity is a much a result of their proprietorship as of their food. "We feel at home here," Elsie says. "The boys come from good homes and like a sandwich or a piece of home-made pie before they go to bed. But sometimes they come in and have had a little too much, not food--you know. Then I have a Bromo-Seltzer for them. I have my own boys, and I know how they feel...
...Grahams went to the airport coffee shop for dinner. Jack Graham was quite fidgety -he had been feeling queasy all day -and in the midst of the meal he. became nauseated. After a trip to the men's room, he felt a lot better. Later, as they were leaving the restaurant, the Grahams overheard someone saying that a plane had crashed. Unable to get any detailed information at the airport, they drove home. The radio confirmed their apprehensions: Flight 629 had crashed 32 miles north of Denver. Mrs. King and all 43 others aboard the DC-6B were dead...
...loyal a servant as Big Brother could wish. Discovering a concealed microphone in his office, Hajek concluded that the decadent British were spying on him. He complained to the British Foreign Office and demanded an investigation. He got one. The Foreign Office traced the planted mikes to a London shop, where they had been bought several weeks before -by a member of Hajek's own embassy staff. Big Brother was still watching...
Townsfolk wandered in and out, especially after the evening movie let out next door, peered over reporters' shoulders. Moppets surprised the newsmen by asking for autographs. Pretty coeds from Gettysburg College dropped in regularly to cover the Hagerty briefings for the campus paper and to talk shop with press corps veterans...