"Hated, feared, and revered, he presided over Table 50 of the Stork Club on East 53d Street in Manhattan, creating and destroying celebrities at the drop of his trademark gray snap-brim fedora."
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Mervyn Rothstein: (review of Walter Winchell: A Novel by Michael Herr)
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