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...nightclubs, the rest from outside sources. Considering the number of non-Broadway anecdotes in his column, the nightclub percentage seems high. But Columnist Lyons points out that a lot of people stop at nightclubs: he met Mrs. Roosevelt in one, Alfred Landon in another, Soviet Ambassador Oumansky in the Stork Club...
...getting tired of the incessant call for "leadership." We're just like any other people in the world. When we deserve something, we get it. Remember the frogs? Not the French, though the cases are somewhat parallel, but the frogs who turned from King Log to King Stork. It seems to me that leaders are much like wives. Sometimes you get a good one and sometimes you don't. Germany has the kind of leadership she wants. So have we (God help us). England had the kind she wanted in Chamberlain and now she has what she wants...
When Model Patricia Garfield tossed a cocktail party at Manhattan's Stork Club, Captain Elliott Roosevelt arrived from Wright Field, Ohio, in full-dress Army Air Corps togs. This, he explained with the assistance of Stork Club press agents, was the proper dress for a captain upon his "initial" appearance at any club...
...where he huddled with savants at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His incisive understanding of their experiments with a new radio tube left them speechless, unable to believe that he had quit school when he was 13. That night he flew back to New York, repaired immediately to the Stork Club with an eyesome blonde. Near his table sat Walter Winchell. The moony young man's eyes bulged with appeal to Winchell for a word or even a look of recognition. Ignored, William P. Lear forgot his triumph of the morning, snarled at the blonde slunk sadly from...
...genius. Many who see him by night, paying his way into café society, think he is daffy. What the latter fail to understand is that he works while he plays. Some of his best ideas for improving aircraft radios and instruments have hit him in the Stork (which he calls "my night office"). He pays alimony to four ex-wives, is one of the outstanding answers to the prayers of chorines in Manhattan, Hollywood and points between. He is also a prolific inventor, an untutored natural master of electrical mechanics who has been known to devise a complete electrical...