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Traditionally sophisticated, Vassar undergraduates turn up their noses at "rah-rah" stuff, avoid exercise, have on their list of favorites Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, the Stork Club, Yale, the film You Can't Take It with You, the New Yorker magazine.* Although Vassar is expensive ($1,855 a year), Mrs. Allen declares that "the snobbishness of wealth just does not exist there," there are no sororities, one-fifth of the students get scholarships...
Night spot rendezvous of debutantes, collegians, actresses, writers, celebrities, exhibitionists, setting for many a devastating crack, many a feeble, alcoholic punch, is Manhattan's famed Stork Club. Two and a half years ago it became the setting for a labor brawl. Smooth, drawling Manager Sherman Billingsley fired nine waiters because, said he, they were incompetent. Incompetence included: garlic breaths, manicuring their nails in the restaurant, ordering drinks for customers, then drinking them themselves, getting cozy with patrons, not keeping tables clean...
...Hotel and Restaurant Employes' International Alliance took the case to the State Labor Relations Board, which finally sided with the waiters. In such a ritzy place as the Stork Club, the help could never have been guilty of such conduct, the Board felt. The waiters must be reinstated and their back pay (an estimated $50 a week with tips) restored...
...Billingsley, protesting that he might as well close up the Stork Club as try to pay, took the case on up to the Appellate Division. There he got the decision reversed. Thereupon the Board appealed the reversal to the Court of Appeals. And last week, while back pay piled up faster than a check in Mr. Billingsley's club, the highest court in the State cracked down on Mr. Billingsley's hopes. It upheld the original findings. Mr. Billingsley would indeed have to take his men back, cough up. The tot to date...
...book is just about the usual thing, a hodgepodge of Cinderella, the Stork Club, Brenda Fraizer, and a trained seal. It contains the usual number of cafe society cracks, some good, some bad. Sample: "Yale is a period of life between changing your voice and selling insurance." Certainly the book is the weak link here, as it is in so many musical comedies these days...