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...Café Criollo...
...York University last week announced new courses in American Folk Music and Basic Jazz. The classroom: a Greenwich Village basement cabaret, Café Society, on Monday nights when it is closed to the public. Warned N.Y.U.'s Dean Paul A. McGhee: "There will be neither bar nor kitchen service...
...hundred years and more, a tinto has sold for 5 centavos. Last week inflation-harried café owners asked the price control board to raise the ceiling price to 10 centavos (6?). From Colombians who had shrugged off other price boosts rose a thunder of protest that boomed across the misty Bogota savannah to echo in subtropical Cali and industrial Medellin...
When the guests gathered at the Coq Rouge for cocktails, they were 80 strong. There were young members of café society whose seasonal pairings are as familiar to the public as Stan Musial's batting average. There were soubrettes who had not been heard from since Julia Marlowe played Juliet. The once-famed Duncan sisters were there. Fanny Ward, who made a living for years as "the 60-year-old flapper," was trying to look a youthful 76 in an outfit that combined a bridal gown and a Baby Snooks nightshirt...
...frightened the elegant aristocracy and the free-spending tourists in the Via Vittorio Veneto; these gentry, knowing they might be targets for Communist vengeance, retreated to their select caverns of safety, the cool bars of the Excelsior and Ambasciatori Hotels. There waiters whisked tables and chairs from the sidewalk cafés and clanged down the corrugated iron shutters, which did not come up again for two days. In the Excelsior bar an American matron twittered: "Oh, I saw it all-rocks flying and sticks coming down on heads, bang-bang-bang. It was so exciting!" A spade-bearded Italian...