Word: teashops
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Monsoon rains fall with astonishing force, beginning in the late afternoon, and flooding the streets. In Rangoon, I escaped into the People's Patisserie for tea and was accosted by a gang of exuberant youngsters calling out "Howareyou! Howareyou!" I found Tom at the teashop near our hotel, engaged in polite conversation with several Burmese men. Nightlife is next to nonexistent in Burma, but teatime is really more like Happy Hour, and the teashops fill up with carousing beer drinkers...
...most startling evidence yet of Lyons' efforts to change the image it has had ever since the 1890s. Noting the difficulty of getting light refreshment in London anywhere except in pubs, three tobacco merchants-Brothers Montague and Isidore Gluckstein and Brother-in-law Barnett Salmon-set up a teashop to give women shoppers a quiet, inexpensive place to lunch. The idea caught on, and the Lyons teashops, named for a relative and staffed by "Nippies" in ankle-length black dresses and frilly white caps, spread quickly. Twelve Salmon and Gluckstein descend ants now run the company under the leadership...
...finds the rough-and-tumble of politics a noisy bore. Once, during a particularly tedious Cabinet session, he murmured something about having to leave "for urgent reasons," went to a side door of the Casa Rosada and hailed a taxi. He rode to a teashop, had a leisurely dish of ice cream, taxied back to the office, gravely rejoined the session. Junta meetings seem more natural to him. Aramburu greets his high military counselors casually: "Hello, Rojas. Afternoon, Admiral. General, how are you?" To them he remains "Senor Presidente." There is always some banter and small talk before the junta...
...Alsatian home town of Gunsbach, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 80, some four decades after renouncing already notable careers in music and philosophy to become a medical missionary in French Equatorial Africa, rolled off to London. Forgoing fancy hotels in favor of staying with a longtime Alsatian friend who runs a teashop, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Schweitzer one day drew on a shabby, dark overcoat, headed for Buckingham Palace. There Queen Elizabeth II invested him with the insigne of the exclusive (24 members) Order of Merit. As a non-Briton, Dr. Schweitzer became the order's second living honorary member...
...lives alone in a book-lined Chelsea flat, rides before breakfast when she can spare the time, puts in an anonymous day's work in the Economist's poky offices, over a teashop in the Strand. She is an inveterate, if slightly wistful, operagoer. She lunches and dines with politicians and economists, who admire her intellectual footwork without mistaking her for a heavyweight. She went on the BBC's board of governors last year and had to give up broadcasting...