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...Stork Club, in Paris, on the Riviera and in London's West End, everybody who was anybody knew Freddy McEvoy. Born to obscurity, the tall, handsome, 44-year-old Australian had the gift of making friends, news, money, and marrying heiresses. His feats of derring-do on the high seas, in the game-filled jungles of Africa and on the icy ski runs of Switzerland gave the international set a vicarious sense of adventure, and earned him the nickname Suicide Freddy. His zesty approach to business matters-he launched the fashion of flowered shirts for men by selling...
...world of peephole journalism, there is no more beautiful relationship than that between Columnist Walter Winchell and Sherman Billingsley, owner of Manhattan's famed Stork Club. Oklahoman Billingsley dates the beginning of his club's fabulous success from the day Winchell first came in and pronounced it "the New Yorkiest place in town." Since then Winchell has always had his own table there, and uses the Stork as his night office. There, he has planned many of the crusades which have gradually promoted him in his own esteem from gossip reporter to the foremost champion of human rights...
...Appalled." Winchell began to explain. He insisted that he had left the Stork Club before the Baker incident occurred. Cried Winchell: "I am appalled at the agony and embarrassment caused Josephine Baker and her friends at the Stork Club. But I am equally appalled at their efforts to involve me in an incident in which I had no part." As a clincher, he added a letter from Walter White himself, doubting that Winchell "would be a party to any insult to human dignity...
...himself from Negroes, and launched a sniping attack on Josephine. In successive columns she became pro-fascist, a troublemaker and a Communist-guided provocateuse. Her supporters became "the Josephine Baker riot-inciters." Winchell reported darkly that "newspapermen are checking the tip that one of the complainants against the Stork Club (and her husband) helped incite and participated in the Paul Robeson-Peekskill riots." Then he reported that in 1935 Josephine had declared: "I am willing to recruit a Negro army to help Italy" in Mussolini's war on Ethiopia...
...argument. "I had to tell him, 'Daddy-O, ungather my dry goods or I'll have to let you have it,' " said Sugar. With the air of a man trying to be helpful to his friend Winchell, Sugar explained that Walter had told him about the Stork Club long ago. "I called him up once," said Sugar, "and told him I'd meet him down at the Stork Club and he said, 'I wish you wouldn't, Champ. Sherman Billingsley doesn't like Negroes and he doesn't want them...