Daughter of the King
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South Pacific (Broadway show), 80
Southern Club (Hot Springs, Arkansas), 14
Southern nativists, 101
Spindletop (restaurant), 152, 154, 170, 180, 218
Stacher, Doc, 15, 19, 33, 85, 115–116, 222–223
Stark, Ray, 209
Steinberg’s Dairy Restaurant, 103, 119, 124
Stella Dallas (radio show), 45
Stork Club (New York), 4, 13, 178, 193
Stradella, Danny, 188
Stroessner dictatorship (Paraguay), 224
Stromberg, Dan, 41
Stromberg, Harry (aka “Nig” Rosen), 41
Sullivan, Ed, 71, 157
Sullivan School (Washington prep school), 78
Summer camp, 75–76, 79–80
Super Chief (train), 9, 72
Susann, Jacqueline, 159
Syms, Billy, 169
Talent Scouts (television show), 71
Tammany Hall, 86
Television, watching, 45. See also specific shows
Temple Emanu-el (New York), 132
Ten Thousand Bedrooms (movie), 163
“Tennessee Waltz” (song), 97–98
Teresa, Vincent “Fat Vinnie,” 224–225
Teriaca, Craig, 225
Thayer Hotel (West Point), 109–110
Thunderbird Hotel (Las Vegas), 137–138
Tiger (dog), 220, 226
Time Clock (horse), 88, 125
Times Square, 52
“The Too Fat Polka” (song), 71
Toots Shor’s (restaurant), 178, 187
Trafficante, Santo, 65
Tranchinas family, 212
Trans World Airlines, 85
Tropical Bar (New York), 210
Tropicana Hotel (Las Vegas), 139
Trump, Donald, 30
Tucker, Richard, 80
Turner, Mary Ann, 121
Tuscany Motel (Miami, Florida), 167
Twentieth Century Limited (train), 9
21 Club (New York nightclub), 178, 188
Unione Siciliana, 212, 213
Universal Fruit and Produce Company (New Jersey), 23
University of Michigan, 195
Valentino, 128–129
Valley of the Dolls (Susann), 159
Varon, Joe, 221
Versailles (New York supper club), 31, 132–134
Vietnam War, 195
Waldorf Towers, 164, 189
Walker, Jimmy, 3
Walters, Barbara, 40
War on crime (1951), 14
Warwick Hotel (New York), 130, 176, 205–207
West, Mae, 60
West Point Military Academy
Gabby Hartnett at, 112–113
Meyer’s aspiration for Paul, 62
Paul’s attendance at, 109–110, 130
Paul’s enrollment in, 86–87
Paul’s graduation from, 142–143
The West Point Story (movie), 89
Westover Hotel (New York), 103
William Morris Agency, 6–7, 69, 162
Wilma’s (store), 31
Winchell, Walter, 13–14, 49, 179
Winthrop Hotel (Tacoma, Washington), 165
Wise, Stephen, 111
Wofford Hotel (Florida), 64
Wood, Annie, 71
Wood, George
Buddy and, 43, 44, 71
Central Park South apartment, 161
Gordon MacRae and, 89
as Meyer Lansky’s roommate, 69
Park Sheraton Hotel, 182
St. Moritz Hotel and, 87
Sandra’s plastic surgery and, 114–115
William Morris Agency and, 6–7, 162
World Series (1919), 182
World War II, 15–18, 62
Wurlitzer jukebox, 42–43, 52–53
Wynne, Ed, 188, 193
Yiddish theatres, 124
Young, Loretta, 157
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 3, 128–129
Ziegfeld Follies, 63
Zwillman, Abner “Longy”
death of, 182–183, 203
description of, 5–6
dress style, 175
Gary Rapoport’s birth, 146
Jean Harlow and, 60
Kefauver Committee hearings, 93