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Late Watch column rumbles about hotels and stars across era
A collage of entertainment notes and gossip spans Manhattan hotels offering 40 percent reductions, talent shifts, and ad campaigns. It recalls Contortionist Marlowe, Elaine Stritch linked to Cardinal Stritch kin, Kay Thompson as a fresh national figure, and Britain’s anti-American currents. Also mentions Jim Backus, Walter Kiernan, Tris Coffin, and others while noting shifts in weekly rates and stage shows.
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World the Late Watch
Manhattan
Permanente
Marlowe
the Frog Man
Pennsy
Strand
Elaine ‘Stritch
Chicago
Cardinal Stritch
Kay Thompson
George Allen
White House