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...beginning, there was the Block. Between Lexington and Third Avenues, 54th and 53rd Streets, it housed such familiar neighborhood establishments as Carroll's Pub, Lexington Sandwich Shoppe, a Pizza Plaza, a Howard Johnson's snack counter. Also, there was a haute cuisine restaurant, Café Chauveron, the Medical Chambers Building, owned cooperatively by 40 doctors, and Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, a handsome two-spired Gothic structure erected in 1905 and all but deserted by a suburban-bound congregation...
...preboarding passenger inspections. Later, a second letter, delivered to news agencies in Paris, announced that "we will not hijack any more aircraft," but repeated the threat to "blow up" airplanes when "capitalist profiteers and lackeys" are aboard. "We will also hit them," the letter said, "in their homes, cafés, clubs, movies, at gala occasions and in their financial fortresses...
...rabbi, Samuel Joel Mostel decided to be a painter, but supported himself with a number of odd jobs, including working as a $5-a-night stand-up comic at neighborhood parties. When he was 27, he made his professional acting debut with a series of impressions at a café and within the year was in Hollywood. Like the character he portrayed in Woody Allen's film The Front, Mostel was blacklisted during the McCarthy years. He made a triumphant return to the entertainment world, however, in the 1958 Broadway production of Ulysses in Nighttown, playing Leopold Bloom...
...cuffer; the leg warmer can be adjusted to look like Chaplin's baggy pants. (Beautiful Legs have learned they can also be funny.) Apart from the possible permutations, the socks come in just about every hue and mix and material imaginable. Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south; others come in cable knits and heathery cottons. There are jacquard knits, woolens in every shade from bubble-gum pink to moonstone gray and Lurex numbers aglitter with specks of gold and silver...
...chess automaton nicknamed the Turk that took on all comers-and was every bit as talented as the human player cleverly concealed within it. That role was filled by William Schlumberger, an Alsatian hunchback who, until hitching up with Maelzel, was the second best chess player at the Café de la Régence in Paris. The machine might have conned its way across the country save for a brilliant detective named Edgar Allan Poe, who exposed the secret in 1836. Maelzel and Schlumberger both died two years later...