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...time of "Sweet Smell," the boites that gave a home to the columnists were heading for twilight - or, since they were nightclubs, their final dawn. The Stork Club went bankrupt and then kaput in the 60s. A later disco spurt would revive the turbid El Morocco; it's still there, but unrecognizable. The "21" Club somehow survived as a rich man's steak house until Anne Rosenzweig took over in the 80s and began serving edible food. Toots Shor declined when night games kept reporters from having dinner there with the ballplayers they covered. There were fewer ballplayers...
...Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), would go downtown to work each morning, peddle stocks until mid-afternoon, come home and take a nap - so he could be fresh for an evening's prowl of the city's top night spots; his son still has a 1937 album of photos from El Morocco. Phyllis Adams, a pert swank Manhattan deb, has her own memory book of nightclub propositions from elegant gents, including Errol Flynn. Brooklyn's Davie Lerner had never been inside any of these tony boites, but when stationed on Okinawa during the War he designed an officers' club that reproduced...
...blocks of one another. The Stork Club, at 3 East 53rd Street, was the top spot - a 1945 movie was named for it, and the place could be seen in "All About Eve" and Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" - but you could find plenty of notables inside El Morocco ("Elmo's," at 2nd Avenue and 54th Street) and The "21" Club (founded in 1921 at 21 West 52nd), with its wine cellar protected by a two-ton door, and (further west on 52nd) Toots Shor, the favorite of sportsmen and serious drinkers like Jackie Gleason. Naturally, America needed arbiters...
...including the ages and immigration status of the four men and the possibility of additional suspects - could not be confirmed. The arrest of three other Moroccans two weeks ago in the nearby village of Tor Bella Monica suggested to some that a large terrorist cell could be at work. Morocco "is not what you'd consider a hotbed of Islamist activity," says a French antiterrorism official. "But the germ of extremism exists there, and it's not surprising that Moroccans have turned up within Islamist terror groups...
...Africa's athletes ran off with 24 medals at the World Championships in Edmonton. The men took every distance race from 1,500 m up while the continent's women notched victories at 400 m, 800 m, 10,000 m, 400-m hurdles and the high jump. Outstanding was Morocco's Hicham el Guerrouj, who claimed his 51st win in 53 finals...