Sherman Billingsley stood at Table No. 1 and waited for his customers. The numbers of the tables are important at the Stork Club and No. 1 is right as you come in and No. 28 is on the aisle where Connie Bennett sat. No. 50 is in the back, in the Cub Room, and the whole country knows that only one man sits at Table 50 in the Stork Club. Table 50 is Walter's table. W.W. would be in later on, at midnight. He always came. So did everybody else. And Billingsley waited at Table No. 1 for Morton Downey, Brenda Frazier, Gene Tierney, Ernest Hemingway and Doris Duke.
- From "Stork Club Closes an Era" in Essential Writings by Jimmy Breslin [Library of America]
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