Word: club
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bells. Entrepreneur Caccienti is rarely aware of the kind of music being played in his sewer: he is a bit hard of hearing and besides, he knows little about jazz. This has its advantages. Explains the San Francisco Chronicle's Jazz Columnist Ralph Gleason: "It's the club musicians like best. First, the owners don't tell them what to do. They can't-they can't communicate. Second, the audience is best. Why else except to listen would anyone endure these conditions...
...Books. Season after season, the joint was jammed. The Hawk's mascots -pigeons living in a coop right above the men's room-grew fat and happy. The fees that the club was able to pay for its jazz acts rose from less than $300 to more than $3,000 a week. Even after the Nogas sold their interest in the club last year to Max Weiss, secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's avant-garde Fantasy Records, nothing really changed. They did try to straighten out the chaotic books, but it was a foredoomed effort. Accurate accounting...
BARBARA SREER, by Stephen Birmingham (371 pp.; Little, Brown; $4.50), is based on a standard Marquand gambit-you can go home again, and again, and again. As she sees herself, Barbara is a yacht-club girl in a rowboat basin. Locustville, Pa. is an industrial town, and her husband Carson is an organization nomad in a Brooks Brothers shirt. When Carson heads for London on one of his periodic sales junkets, Barbara deposits their two little boys with the maid and flies off like a homing pigeon to her dear old home in gracious, spacious Burketown, Conn...
...Aubrey Goodman (344 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.50), belies the gloom criers who think that U.S. youth consists entirely of beard bearers on one hand and IBM trainees on the other. There are still gold-hatted, high-bouncing young men who know their way to the washroom in the Union Club. In his resplendently gold-jacketed first novel, Yaleman Goodman, 23, lists a few undergraduate acolytes who keep the torch flaming: "Lawlor Reck, who had won the Charleston contest at the Everglades Club in Florida for six years running . . . one of the Du Pont boys . . . Lou Bond, who was from...
...newest shamus in the club collects his pay as suavely as any, is just as deadly with rod and dukes. This time he and his blueblooded staff (Joanna Barnes) pull a semilegal caper, conning...