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the harbor to the fatuous sky-line (instead of the Clarcmonfs view V ,' the I uuso is the Marine Roof Garden at the 1 ossert Hotel in Br, r 3 J T h Hi No i" t! o Marine-Roof Bosscrt B l t: ke e ^ subway, pleasant You V ,v. tn S e t Sthe b w a y , which isn't so pkasant on a hot night, h t M S v worth it when you get there. Sunset there i . also glorious. The s ! S e Hotel Roof in Brooklyn offers a splendid view of the harbor and s u J hJs T l e s s interesting dining room than the Marine Roo but is also 1«i exoeSsive and there is a wonderful swimming pool in the hotel. e P ? £ c e s nearer Headquarters? Well there's Iheresa W o r t h i n g Grant southern cooking, outdoor tables, and leisurely service! Many New Yorker, Ubnrians and other professional people with refined tastes and slim pocketbooks sav they have gotten the best dollar dinner in New York at the Hearthstone on 48th Street just south of the Waldorf, (the Blue Bowl just opposite the Hearthstone is also recommended)-but if you are up near Columbia University you can get just as good a one, if not better, for 99 cents or less at Butler Hall, 119th Street and Morningside Drive. That is a roof garden and has a terrace with a fine view over the city in every direction, and is very cool. Foreign places? They are apt to be rather hot and stuffy in the summer time Some of the Italian restaurants west of Fifth Avenue have "garden but they are inside buildings. However, if you are hungry, of course there is no cheaper way of getting filled up than an Italian restaurant, unless it is a Chinese or Japanese one. It is fun to eat at the Japanese restaurants where they cook on your table, if you have plenty of time! Wherever you see a sign Suki Aki you will find Japanese food. There are two or more in the Forties, west of Fifth Avenue. Good Swedish places abound, Stockholm offers a cool quiet place for lunch or dinner and a Smorgasbord table loaded with delectable dishes, both hot and cold. Places outside the city? If you have a car at your disposal, drive out over the new Spuyten Duyvil Bridge and the Hendrik Hudson Parkway, at the upper end of Riverside Drive, and on out the Sawmill River Parkway to Woodland Tavern. That's a very pleasant place to eat dinner overlooking the Sawmill River. You may get a very poor dinner or a very good dinner there. Its a toss-up. It's a pleasant drive anyway and you seem to be much farther from the city than you really are. Finally, if you can spare the time from four or five in the afternoon on into the evening, you can drive to the nicest place of all, the terrace of the central pavilion at Jones Beach where you can look out over the greenest grass and the pinkest flowers and the whitest sand in the world to the open sea and watch the great ocean-going vessels steam by 'way out on the horizon Don't let the waiter inveigle you inside. Better a simple blue-plate of sea-food out in the open than a full course dinner shut up in a dining room. With a car you can get there easily inside two hours without breaking the law (Mr Windsor can probably do it in an hour, if he doesn't get pinched) by way of the Tri-Boroug" Bridge, which is a marvelous sight in itself and the easiest bridge to drive on, and the Grand Central and Southern State Parkways. The sign for Jones Beach is a seahorse. So follow the seahorses and you'll reach the sea in due tin*

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