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...King Zog. Since 1948, about 500 Albanians have escaped into Yugoslavia, many of whom have found haven in Titograd, the new provincial capital the Montenegrins are building on the ruins of Podgorica, which was razed by British bombers in World War II. Sipping thick Turkish coffee in a Titograd café last week, one of the refugees, a country storekeeper, said: "Police came to me and demanded 2,000,000 lek [$4,000]. I told him I didn't have it. They sent me to jail in Scutari. They chained my arms together underneath my knees and threatened...
...right words for the newest French import. Wrote one: "She sounds like Edith Piaf [TIME, Oct. 3, 1949] but looks like a younger edition of Peggy Hopkins Joyce." Tried another: "A young Piaf, but pretty." Meanwhile, blonde Marjane (short for Marie Jane Thérese Gendebian) had Manhattan café socialites begging for more of her songs...
Haven. In West Warwick, R.I., Arakel Kojoian was cleared of an assault charge when he testified that on the night of the crime he was playing cards at the Alibi Caf...
...Some café owners kept their prices down but cut their meat portions, refused seconds on coffee and turned to à la carte menus. In Atlanta, a restaurant proprietor shook his head: "Every day," said he, "I stand in the lobby of the building where my place is and count the lunches going by in paper bags. There are more of those lunch toters every week...
...trio of business-suited bureaucrats in a chain of command that goes on into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway to death ("Look at yourself in a mirror all your life, and you will see death at work like bees in a hive of glass...