The Best Table — Richard Devon

Fifty years ago, a blue-blooded Yankee named Cecil Townsend and a street-wise New York kid named Duke Greene opened a speakeasy in the heart of Manhattan's chic East Side. Today, Duke and Cecil's 44 Club is the ultimate - the place to be seen, to be pampered, to be accepted or snubbed . . . where fortunes and hearts are shattered like Baccarat crystal . . . where famous faces are as familiar as the caricatures that line the paneled walls . . . where careers are made or broken, depending on where one sits, and kingmakers and headliners, stars and princes wait in line for the prize that only Duke and Cecil control . . . the best table.