Poetic Obituaries: Andy Warhol stopped by for a cup

of his coffee. So did princes, paupers, playwrights, poets and untold thousands for whom a visit to Vienna was unthinkable without a cup of steaming brew served by the bow--tied little man with the perpetual dancing smile.

In this city of more than 1,900 cafes, Leopold Hawelka was an icon, as much part of Cafe Hawelka as its tables ---- scarred by burned--out cigarettes, their marble tops worn smooth by the elbows of four generations.

from The Associated Press: Viennese Cafe Icon Hawelka dead at 100

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