Stork Club 
Subtitle: America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Society
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780316105316
Subjects: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism; Social History; United States - State & Local; United States - 20th Century; History; History - General History; Billingsley, Sherman; Stork Club (New York, N.Y.); History: World
First sentence: SSSSssshhhhhhhh. A flat rectangle of water slides down the rocky wall of a sudden oasis in the skyscraper canyons of Manhattan's East Fifties.
Description: "From the Roaring Twenties to the chaotic sixties, Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club was America's most enchanting nightclub. It was a glittering world where starlets stalked millionaires, where Jack wooed Jackie, and where Prince Rainier wooed Grace Kelly. It was where Hemingway knocked down the warden of Sing Sing, headwaiters reaped $20,000 tips, and Walter Winchell, the Stork's famed scribe-in-residence, snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. From Orson Welles to Joe DiMaggio, J.

Edgar Hoover to Frank Costello, they all came to the Stork." "But simmering beneath the romantic surface of the ultimate cafe-society rendezvous was a tale of mob and muscle, and of an impresario every bit as colorful as the club itself. In Stork Club, journalist Ralph Blumenthal tells the saga of the world's most storied nightspot and its owner, with exclusive access to Billingsley's private papers."--BOOK JACKET.