Word: tearooms
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...IMPOSSIBLE MARRIAGE, by Pamela Hansford Johnson (344 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; ($3.75) is as feminine as a tearoom at high noon. The yatter is about 1) love, 2) men, 3) women, and 4) the fixes 2 and 3 get themselves into over 1. Christine Jackson, the first-person British heroine of the story, is 18, lonely and romantic...
...world's most elegant delicacies; its salesmen wear morning coats, ship such rarities as boar's head in aspic and breast of Scottish grouse to all corners of the globe. At the other end are London's ABC shops, a chain of 164 cheap self-service tearooms. This week the Piccadilly prince is about to marry the tearoom Cinderella. The man who brought Fortnum & Mason and ABC shops together: Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston, 56, owner of Fortnum & Mason and boss of Britain's huge Allied Bakeries, who is known throughout the empire as "the Barnum...
...vanished houses. But trade of a sort is reviving in Chinju. Barbers do a rush business, with customers seated in opulent-looking chairs salvaged from the wreckage. A businessman named Lim Moon Bong has scraped together $1,600 to build the town's finest postwar structure, the "Lighthouse Tearoom," with nautical fixtures...
...Nacional de Mujeres was ready for occupants. The prisoners who were moved there found it a spacious, sunlit, flower-hedged cluster of white buildings 27 miles west of Havana. For each inmate there was an airy, pastel-tinted cell, with toilet and hot & cold running water. Dinner was eaten, tearoom fashion, at small, flower-decorated tables. Reclusorio has a nursery and playground for children of prisoners, and a basketball court. For trusties, there is even a beauty parlor...
Died. Frances Violet Stewart Thomas, 66, tall, gracious wife of Socialist Norman Thomas, who spent most of her time raising five children and prizewinning cocker spaniels and who once ran a tearoom; of a heart attack; in Cold Spring Harbor...