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...essence of espresso is speed," explained Morris Yarrow, proprietor of the new Cafe Mozart, as he brought out two cups. "The process is the reverse of tea making, where you let the tea infuse slowly into the water." At the Plympton Street cafe, abstract paintings have replaced the chalk drawings of the old Capriccio, while uniform black tables and unpainted chairs contribute a slight austerity to Yarrow's coffee house...
...Yarrow graduated from Dartmouth in 1955 and has interrupted studying philosophy to try the cafe trade. After working in coffee houses in New York, he decided to try one in Cambridge. "This community should be able to support several coffee houses. I want to dispel the coffee house mystique; a coffee house is merely a place for good coffee and conversation. While the coffee house itself is not indigenous to America, there is good reason for its emergence here as a synthesis of good culture, painting and coffee...
...Each section-News and Fiction, Homemaking, Style and Beauty-had its own cover, and ads appropriate to it inside. Then he went after the taboos that governed the sweetness & light fiction of women's magazines. He bought a story about adultery (Stone Blunts Scissors, by Sara Yarrow), in which the adulteress got the man. McCall's got 5,000 letters on it, most of them praise...
Conceived five years ago and made possible as a tribute to Princeton's sport by a group of Princeton sportsmen headed by Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr., the canvases were the work of shy, spectacled William Yarrow, 43, no Princetonian, but a well-known portraitist who divided his time between Dublin, N. H. and Florence, Italy to compose the triumphs of the Orange & the Black. Big, bold figures drawn from undergraduate models with technical advice from coaches and team captains, Artist Yarrow's works depict a relay race in which Princeton has the inside track and a Yale runner...
...more interest to outsiders than the depiction of Princeton's prowess at sports was the fact that Mr. Yarrow had executed his 13 murals in the technique used by the early Renaissance masters-egg-tempera emulsion...