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The Atlanta Journal from Atlanta, Georgia • 2

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S' a at cafe in Paris at restaurant HAYNES: His is the only restaurant in Paris that serves up barbecue chicken chitterlings spare ribs and 'mountain' nered his nickname and All American honors as an end for Morehouse College in the early 1930s He retains the powerful squat physique of an offensive line man but now has trouble remember ing names and dates Thus there is a fantasy quality to his reminiscences By Thomas Noland Special to The JoumaConstitution 2 A gfag Atlanta Bonrnal ANDCOXSTTHrilOX SUNDAY JANUARY 1 1984 Portuguese woman named Maria'S and living modestly in a zmall a 5 4 4 won a football scholarship to More house Recalling those days before offen Atlanta University It was 1941 and sive and defensive platooning he as he was deciding what to do with' shakes his head barely tinged with his life got a long letter from the white hairs and leans back in his Army Dear They PARIS As chic Parisians toasted the new year with foie gras and champagne a dedicated band of equally chic non conformists downed mouthfuls of black eyed peas Saturday night courtesy of a Morehouse College graduate whose restaurant is known by devotees for its exotic specialty soul a little said Jean Loup Godular as he looked down at his half finished plate of New Or i leans red beans sausage and rice "But I like it" It was the first visit for Godular a 23 year old chemical engineer who lives across the street from Leroy Haynes Restaurant Haynes Others in the room of 25 had been coming for years to the most down home New Eve on this side of the Atlantic At one table were eight rench and American revelers talking ani matedly in two languages while eat ing fried chicken and sipping Cali fornia wine Recorded blues music provided a steady background Restaurant Haynes a log cabin cubbyhole on the narrow Rue Clau zel two blocks from the red light district called Pigalle in rench and by US troops in World War II is a Paris legend In the 1950s it was a kind of club a house for jazz greats who came to Paris to take advantage of the post war European jazz boom In the and 70s entertainers ranging from 1 Jackie Gleason and Marlon Brando to Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor wolfed down funky fare and left affectionately signed2 photographs as memorials of their i visits These celebrities along with Peter Claudia Cardinale Brigitte Bardot and the blues magi cian John Lee Hooker smile down from the walls at diners 95 percent rench who come to sam Morehouse grad sells soul food chair revealing a gray shirt that wanted me to come on in was he says in a low says "Morehouse But before being shipped to the gravelly bass that frequently bursts any of this' bull you Pacific Haynes went rAWOC'to HSundav Special Black eyed peas hamlet Haynes moved to Chicago minutes And noo equip where he grew up Then in 1932 he He laughs After graduation Haynes earned a degree in sociology from apartment above the restaurant Haynes says he has never considered gang back to the United States what? Same people got the money As long as in gonna be no jobs Na Everything Eve got is here" 9 He says he often turns customers away from his packed restaurant and partly in response to such de maud writing abook of anec dotesandrecipes Asked for the recipe for his black eyed peas he says he minder laughs and adds: probably change it next time Depends on how dnink I am" or the time being then here's how he makes them 1 Brown over a hot fire in goosey grease: two cracked ham bones fivel chopped onions and three cloves of garlic 2 Add two stalks of chopped cel ery and one chopped tomato a tea spoon of salt and a quarter teaspoon of black oeoner liouid Cover Continue cooking overS 3 Add black eyed peas Add noS liquid Cover Continue cooking over? a slow fire for 10 minutes stirring 4 Remove from fire add set asiddX for 20 minutes Cover with stock Haynes is slower of movement and into high pitched staccato laughter have now with five minutes on the marry an Atlanta woman Catherine bringing it to a boil Simmer until speech thsp he was when he gar Clinton Ky in rom that field and five he says Toomer the first of his four wives tender Correct seasoning was on bivouac in Columbia SC I walked 10 miles got a bus went to Where was it? Rich something some little town near Savannah Anyway we woke the old man up the preacher and paid him his Haynes served three years in the Pacific and then was sent to Europe in the final months of the war He stayed in the army until 1949 moved to Paris and after getting ax divorce from Ms Toomer married a rench woman named Gabriella In 1950 they opened a restaurant Haynes and had a community he recalls "and it was red It in eluded such Paris jazz legends as' Memphis Slim who played off and' on for 30 years in a basement club" 1 in the Latin Quarter and the novel ists Richard Wright and James9 Baldwin In 1964 Haynes and Gabrielle di vorced and he moved a block away to open Restaurant Haynes at 3 Rue ClauzeL Now married to a young wt pie Haynes barbecue chicken chit terlings spare ribs and on a dozen or so simple wooden tables or lovers of such occult Ameri can delicacies Haynes is the only place in town that regularly pro vides five nights a week the real thing At 69 Leroy speech tluip was when he gar Elim Tlx 1 MMMMA A KH3f 'PH NEWSMAKERS Liz Taylor heads list rom Wire Reports Ann Harper author of the Beauty has come up with her own list of 10 female' personalities in the arts whom she dubs and biggest Leading off is Elizabeth Taylor who Ms Harper has decided of but has learned to dress Otherslisted are Marilyn Homo Beverly Sills Nell Carter Patti Austin Lainie Kazan Barbara Cook Shelley Winters Jane' Russell and Jennifer Holliday All of these women have a lot of flair and have things together despite the fact that they are over the size society considers the norm Ms Harper says The author is a size 16 and a former model Bush gets blitzed by blizzard of the South Vice President George Bush was among those blitzed by the blizzard that hit the South Bush told report ers after a visit to City Hall that his home was without water for two days at his Houston residence The vice aides said he was in Houston for a quiet holiday visit Despite the cold and the water problem Bush went jogging with astronaut John Young around the condominium where he lives while in town Paul Simon considers taking a year off Singer and songwriter Paul Simon says consider ing taking a year off Simon told WCBS TV News in New York think it is time after a long period of work necessary for me to stop and think a little bit about just whatever (to) readjust my values in life And being married changes an awful lot about what I want to Simon recently married Carrie iaher and has a new album called and Schoolgirl Samantha returns from Japan Looking tired after a 14 hour plane ride from Tokyo globe trotting schoolgirl Samantha Smith returned to Portland Maine Saturday after her 10 day holiday trip to Japan Last summer 11 year old Samantha traveled in the Soviet Union at the invitation of President Yuri An dropov Samantha had written to the Soviet leader asking questions about nuclear war Asked where she would like to go next she smiled and said Samantha and her mother Jane traveled through Japan at the invitation of a group promoting an international science and technol ogy exposition in that country in 1985 Will Miss Kitty wed Texas councilman? Will Miss Kitty of leave Arizona to marry an Austin Texas city councilman and real estate developer? have to stay tuned to find out Mark Spaeth has proposed but Amanda Blake best known for her role as Miss Kitty in the long running television west ern has yet to say yes or no asked me several times to pack up everything and move to Austin a very very dear friend of said Miss Blake 52 who now works in a Scottsdale beauty salon Spaeth said that although he received an answer from Miss Blake already hunting for a big house with wing for her a wing for me and a wing for bodyguard honored by queen Prince bodyguard and the woman who ad vises Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on what to wear received decorations Saturday in traditional New Year Honors List The 677 honors peerages knight hoods other titles and medals were submitted by the prime minister and approved by Queen Elizabeth II Detective Inspector Steve Burgeee received the Royal Victorian Order despite a wrist slapping last summer when he was photographed with 23 year old Prince An drew and a bikini clad woman in the Caribbean And Lady Guinevere Tilney 67 a Thatcher aide and unofficial mis tress of the prime wardrobe was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire Private service held for Beach Wilson United Press International INGLEWOOD Calif About 75 people including i four of the Beach Boys attended a memorial service Saturday for the rock drummer Dennis Wilson who drowned last week the publicist sail About 75 close friends and family members at tended the private service at the Manchester Chapel of the Inglewood Cemetery Sandy riedman said The date of the private burial was withheld Wilson 39 drowned Wednesday while diving off Marina Del Rey He had spent the day on a friend's i yacht and had been drinking I Band members Alan jardina Mike Love Bruce Johnston and Carl Wilson attended the service but Wil other brother Brian' was not there because he bad attended an earlier private service riedman said brother is with me in my heart and he will be with me in my music for all my Brian Wilson said in a prepared statement Saturday Dennis song My released on an album in 1977 was played at the serv ices I Wilson's mother Audrey his wife Shawn 19 and Gaga the 15 month old son sat quietly as the Rev Victor Toso presided over the service The Associated Press UNERAL: Carl Wilson leaves service WWW I I BBk iw 'JMn SA VE 25 TO 50 ON CUSTOM DRAPERY AND UPHOLSTERY ABRICS AND 25 ON LABOR CALL SHOP AT HOME 491 2313 a new year and time to give a new look to your furniture and windows Save 25 to 50 on a large selection of custom drapery fabrics in hundreds of prints and solids from 399 per yard You can also save 25 to 50 on all custom upholstery fabrics in a variety of textures solids and prints And you get an additional savings of 25 on labor! expert custom workshop will make your valances cornices and draperies also perform their expertise on new arm caps seat cushions and wood touch ups all atnoextracharge Remember easy to shop at Rich's Call Shop At Home 49 1 23 13 and one of dur experts will come to your home at no charge or no obligation 9 wtff wlfei waii II I Hi SAI! i WHowlif I II' rtf 1 MMrT I Hf HU fl 1 1 1 1 aSsflIUl' fl Si I b0Kaiiii I 1 1: I fl 9 if ihmbOM i i4flLrflflMHflB TtH msmimnnpt I t' I i i.

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