Word: copa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week Jan Drake draped herself in her best stone-marten stole and joined Little Augie for drinks at the Copa, then went on to a spaghetti house (Husband Drake had a nightclub engagement in Washington). After dinner, they headed for the Drake home in Queens to look at boxing matches on TV. They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck...
...motorcycle kid. I had eight minutes to dress and get on the floor. It wasn't until I'd finished that I realized what had happened. Then I started to shake, and I passed out and started to cry." Last month Eydie was back at the Copa as a headliner...
...Girl in the Copa Line. From modeling, Ann progressed to acting. In 1939, when Bill Woodward was a schoolboy at Groton, she was a showgirl in Noel Coward's girlshow, Set to Music. Later she had some minor success in radio soap operas, e.g., Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, and in nightclubs.. One night in 1943 Ensign Bill Woodward, just out of Harvard and just sworn in for wartime service with the Navy, spotted a girl wearing a cat costume in the chorus line at the Copacabana. It was Ann, and it was love. After a two-week engagement...
...show is Sammy Davis Jr., 29, who in the past four months has become one of the hottest acts in the nation's gaudier nightclubs-Las Vegas' Last Frontier, Hollywood's Giro's, Miami Beach's Copa City. Last week Davis was packing them in at Manhattan's Copacabana, and columnists were hurling exclamation points. Variety's verdict: "In the main, socko." Yet Davis has been doing much the same act since before the war, sometimes without making enough money to buy a new pair of pants...
...Among them: Manhattan's Copacabana, E Borracho, Cafe Louis XIV; Los Angeles' Giro's and Mocambo; Washington's Harvey's, Chicago's Blackhawk, Philadelphia's Bookbinder's, Boston Latin Quarter, Miami's Copa City...