Word: algonquin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Horsehair Stuffing. Wolfe obviously felt at home with The New Yorker. His article reveals few inside secrets,* but with customary hyperbole he captures some of the magazine's musty-fusty atmosphere: the multicolored memo paper serving a variety of subtle editorial purposes; the ritual cocktails at the Algonquin Hotel, to which no newly hired staffer dare come until he is formally-but oh so casually-invited; the religious regard for the offices of deceased or departed writers, in which all the original bric-a-brac is kept reverentially in place...
...Hanged by Words. As a source of controversy, Lillian Ross seems totally miscast. Seated in the Algonquin Hotel lobby, a favorite and convenient haunt -it is just around the block from The New Yorker-she becomes just any 37-year-old woman, as inconspicuous as her chair. Her private life is a carefully protected secret: she once expressed regret at having made the mistake of publicly admitting as much as the place of her birth...
...aging madame of the theatre, Dierdre Dauphine (Bancroft Littlefield), is recruited to give the show a star, though Mrs. St. Regis is sure her son Algonquin (William Hitzig) and daughter Mayflower (J. Patterson McBaine) are "obviously better...
...never understood their ambitious son, become stock figures of Jewish folk comedy. The late, irascible Kaufman is ably impersonated by Jason Robards Jr., whose perpetually aghast eyebrows seem to sense the serious trouble in the script. Appearing at intervals are a galaxy of vintage celebrities, such as the Algonquin Round Table in toto and a struggling actor named Archie Leach (played by Bert Convy), who later became Gary Grant...
Food Around the Clock. The larger clubs, with many facilities and correspondingly high overhead, have had to fight hard to stay in the black. Boston's Algonquin Club is down to 950 members from its customary 1,000, is closed on Sundays during the summer months, and operates with a skeleton staff on Saturdays. Philadelphia's University Club, founded in 1881, filed a petition of bankruptcy in July. Many of the members will join the Penn Athletic Club on a special cut-rate basis-thereby, perhaps, saving it from a similar fate...