Word: mocambo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr. and Lana Turner, blonde and nubilissimous cinemactress, would be married as soon as he could get a divorce from Actress Arline Judge. From Hollywood, wires signed "Lana and Bob Topping" went out to 150 friends, inviting them to a big celebration at the swank Mocambo Club...
...escorts, considers three parties or as many nightclubs a routine evening. Her nimble tongue can hold its own with Hollywood's best. (Just before Errol Flynn's acquittal on charges of consorting with a minor, she quipped: "I hear you took a party of 14 to the Mocambo and couldn't get a table.") One of the few times she came out second was when Restaurateur Mike Romanoff ended an argument by kicking her in the foot...
...many other ways, the U.S. was settling down. If World War II was to be followed by something approximating the jazz age, it was not yet in sight. Nightclub business was off everywhere-from Manhattan's Stork to Hollywood's Mocambo. The great migrations and frenzied travel stirred up by war were almost at an end. There were fewer marriages and fewer divorces in the first months of 1947 than there had been...
Like Igor ("Cholly") Cassini, his Manhattan opposite number, Lait does most of his work at night, gleaning items from bar tenders, waiters and customers in Mike Romanoff's restaurant and at Giro's, the Mocambo and the other "Sunset Strip" clubs. So far he has stuck to items about society celebrities (the Herricks, the Whitneys, the Rockefellers, etc.) and feature stories about forgotten heiresses and play boys. But some of his pieces have sent Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, pillar of the Examiner's society staff and of local society, flouncing into the editor's office...
Least of all is it for lack of suitors. Laid end to end, the eligible and often famous men who have courted her might reach from the Stork Club to the Mocambo. She has inspired one of them to the century's most poignant heart-cry: "Colby, you are the only woman in the world whom I'd like to pay alimony to." But another of the most avid of them, a European who in his spare time directs pictures at Warner Bros., once sadly explained to her: "Colby, I can't marry you. I want...