Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In some places the show is the clientele itself, three in particular: the Harwyn, the Stork and El Morocco. Like major-league ball clubs, they all have their stars. The Harwyn, especially nouveau riche, is a dissident Stork offshoot, having been started by former Stork employees, and treasures Frank Sinatra...
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Like so much citrus fruit, patrons turn up to be graded. Discrimination once occurred at the door and at the velvet rope, but it now occurs more notably inside. Where one is seated is all-important; Big-Namesville may be just a table away from Squaresburgh, but the distance in...
All these social distinctions and celebrity gradations are the patient work of headwaiters, who eat $5 bills while riding home on the subway. Right behind them are the club owners themselves, notably John Perona of El Morocco, a proud, tough member of the 8,000,000, whose daytime chalk-stripe...
Voodoo & Sequins. The large entertainment rooms of the hotels have the clearest, most agreeable atmospheres. The Persian Room at the Plaza is the most attractive, almost always features a lone singer (Lilo, Lisa Kirk, Hildegarde). The Waldorf's Empire Room, whose headwaiter has cultivated the manner of a Habsburg...