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...Yolaine Randall, 26, a dark and vacantly beautiful model, love was a good address. In a Manhattan courtroom last week Yolaine's husband. Sol Randall, 36, a $60-a-week restaurant cashier, tried to explain Yolaine's attitude toward their $186-a-month suite at the Century. "To her, the apartment on Central Park West was society stuff, the 400," said Sol. "I tried to move out-it was too expensive for me. She said she wouldn't live out of the Century. She said, 'When I tell people I live at the Century that means...
...road to the Century began one night in 1950 when Yolaine, a senior at the University of Miami, arrived at the Sacred Cow, a Manhattan restaurant of which Sol was part owner. His mother, Mrs. Sophie Lenefsky, is an accomplished chicken plucker who has feathered her nest over the years by hard work in a chicken market. After World War II, she presented Sol and his sister with $13,000 that she had saved, to buy the restaurant. On the night Yolaine came to dine there, she was introduced to Sol. Two months later when he went to visit...
...Money, No Sex. After the wedding Sol wanted to settle down in The Bronx ("There was a nice apartment there, with a doorman and everything, near Yankee Stadium"), but Yolaine picked the Century on Central Park West. ("I can remember when I was a child," Sol recalled wistfully, "and used to walk in the park and see the Century. That was class. I never expected to live there.") Yolaine's father, Murray Gross, who had made a fortune in brassieres, bought the furniture and wall-to-wall carpeting for their 4 ½room suite...
...back as well as in front, men wear two-piece bathing suits on the beaches, and unmarried girls are never permitted out after dark without a chaperone. Spaniards have long viewed with horrid fascination and some alarm the thriving colony of fun-loving American expatriates at sunbaked Costa del Sol, southwest of Malaga...
...found in Madrid salons surrounded by poets and duchesses, fulminating at Iberian decadence till hostesses swept the whole lot out at dawn. To lead Spain out of its self-centered provincialism into fruitful communication with the rest of Europe, Ortega founded the most famous Spanish newspaper (the liberal El Sol) and the most widely quoted Spanish review (Revista de Occidente) of the day. He launched political manifestoes ("Spaniards, our nation does not exist. Reconstruct it. The monarchy must be destroyed"). And all the while, in the most exquisitely modulated Castilian prose of the 20th century, he wrote about Spain...