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...With a caustic reference to Hoovers past visits to nightclubs ("a Stork Club detective"), Congressman Vito Marcantonio of New York declared: "The FBI should be stopped from engaging in inquisitionlike tactics in handling crimes no more serious than stealing a bag of peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Policeman's Lot | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...Negro Cultist Father Divine last July if she was not granted a liquor license (she can now get one), offered the stone mansion as a potential night spot to Manhattan Night Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley. Said cautious Impresario Billingsley, who has two going concerns in Manhattan (Stork Club, Nine O'Clock Club) and who knows the potentialities of a nightclub in stuffy Newport: "I'm considering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Originally a title conferred by gossip columnists on debutantes who haunted Manhattan's night spots, glamor girl is today an occupation, sponsored by pressagents of such eating joints as the Coq Rouge, Stork Club, 21, and publicized by columny. Debutante No. 1 lives in a world startled by the explosion of flashlight bulbs, appears with glamor boys like "Billy" Livingston, Jaro Fabry, Heinrich Orth-Palavicini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Glamor Girl | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...save her pretty daughter all this hullabaloo, Patricia's mother, Mrs. Dunbar Plunkett, brought Patricia out last fortnight at a staid reception where friends of the family outnumbered cafe society. But Miss Plunkett had already been chosen by bellwether Charles ("Chic") Farmer of the Stork Club. This month her face, painted by Bradshaw Crandell, appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Glamor Girl | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...words. He had also managed to paint pictures, run for Congress, organize a labor union, make innumerable speeches, run a little weekly newspaper of his own, remember the Holy Sacrament, spend hours on end eating & drinking with his friends in such Manhattan night spots as the Stork Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Column | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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