GLASGOW BY NIGHT. Of the city's sixty chief restaurants less than a dozen remain open until 11 PM. When they do, too, close the coffee stores alone, with their unvarying menus of pies, hotdogs and coffee, serve to meet the "small hours" hunger of public. In the circle of light around them - electricity being tapped (legally) from lamp standards at sites authorised by the corporation - evening dresses brush the racks of the vagrants and the artificial Anglicised accent of Kelvinside mingles with slovenly speech of slumland. Popular rallying points for petty crooks and their woman partners the coffee stores occasionally "make news" as when Glasgow reporter found himself centre of interest in a front-page story after being edged out of the circle of light at the St Enoch square store and beaten up for no apparent reason by a gang of young thugs. Plain clothes man among the customers, however, have reduced such incidents to a minimum. Most popular of the stalls is this at St. Vincent Place, near the George Square rendezvous for the all-night bus service. Nina Weldun, 24-year-old city hairdresser (three-quarter back to camera and to the left of lamppost) had one grouse concerning the stall. "They might at least supply cups with handles," she said. 19 March 1949