Word: stork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike her sister in New York, who drinks her Martinis extra dry and has learned to be bored at the Stork long before her debut, London's deb bursts forth on the social scene relatively unaware. Her dancing has been largely confined to boarding-school socials, her standard tipple tomato juice laced with Worcestershire sauce. Her debut is genuine and to meet it she must first get on a "list...
...Skiddoo! Snapped Millikin: "Let us cut out the bunk about how this tax bill is for the benefit of the rich, and how it oppresses the poor." Douglas pointed to a proposed reduction in the federal tax on cabarets. Asked he: "How many workingmen go to the Stork Club, the '23' Club,* and other such places, where gay blades like the Senator from Colorado are wont to congregate...
That brought a youthful glint into old (63) Gene Millikin's eyes. "The Senator from Illinois," said he, "causes me to think very nostalgically . . . His mind is preoccupied, for some strange reason, with the Stork Club and other fancy clubs, where, I assume, curvaceous and attractive girls gather...
Douglas broke in: "Let me say that I have never been in a nightclub in my life." Wistfully, Senator Millikin replied: "Nor have I, for many, many years . . . The Senator from Illinois has stimulated my imagination. His mind is strangely preoccupied with elegant clubs like the Stork Club and the '23' Club-is that the right name?" Douglas had the answer at the tip of his tongue. Said he: "The '23' Club, according to Walter Winchell...
...through the Voice of America investigation together, and Roy cheerfully shared credits with Dave. They would fly down to Washington from New York on Monday, take adjoining rooms at the Statler Hotel for the week, then fly back on Friday night for a weekend of nightclubbing. (Favorite haunt: the Stork Club's Cub Room.) At McCarthy's wedding last September, Cohn pushed Schine into a family wedding picture (much to Joe's annoyance). This idyllic state of gamboling was suddenly interrupted last summer by the harsh note of a bugle: Gerard David Schine was about...