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...tale of the meeting between Colonel Bykov and Hiss was in the best spy-thriller tradition: the meeting took place in a Brooklyn movie theater and the trio then moved surreptitiously to a Chinatown cafée. There, according to Chambers, Hiss agreed to get documents from the State Department for the Russian...
...Creek and all the hills and hollers-history caught up with Ambrose Metcalfe. He drove into the shabby settlement of Lejunior with his wife and baby, stopped and climbed out, belligerently intent on investigating a parked automobile in which he had seen a bootlegger named Ford Sizemore and a café operator, Art Jackson...
Author Norman's story is a tale of Greenwich Village innocence, before Stalinism and Sartre, when, by his account, the villains were no worse than money-making poetasters, when there was lively talk in gay Bohemian cafés, and when a hero could stalk wrathfully from a meeting of the Poetry Association...
...sseldorf, the Ruhr's money and fashion capital, is drab and desolate. But by night, scrap dealers and black marketeers crowd into such slick cellar restaurants as the Goldene Treppe (Golden Staircase), where they dine on smoked salmon and duck at $12 a meal, and into such cafés as the Allotria (Tomfoolery), where they jitterbug to Bel Mir Bist Du Schön with heavily rouged hostesses known in Germany as Animierdamen-"animation ladies...
After flying down to Rio, and running a gantlet of unhurried customs men, they sprawled on curving Copacabana Beach, drank mild guarana in the cafés, and stared at the jungled hillsides, splashed with the purple bloom of the quaresma, the "tree of Lent...