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Article: New York's Algonquin Hotel celebrates Round Table's 75th anniversary. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 17, 1994
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NEW YORK _ It started simply as a press agent's gag.
It went on to become a 10-year lunch, a nationally famous gathering of young critics and Broadway's best, where the quips and razor-sharp retorts were served up with relish.
It was the Round Table at the Algonquin Hotel _ and in the 1920s, there was no more urbane or sophisticated a place to be in America.
Even today, the term summons up visions of a talented group of people given to sparkling repartee and their own brand of ham-on-wry.
In New York this week, the birthplace of brunch with a snide order of bromide celebrates the group's 75th anniversary. For without the Algonquin, there would have been no ...