Namesake

A presumably short-lived 1932 derivation of the Algonquin Round Table,  the Forty-Fourth Street Chowder and Marching Club promised good, clean fun. The Rochester Evening Journal article describing board games and ping pong, and declaring "wise cracks are barred" and "jazz is on its way out," reads more like a send-up or obligatory post-scandal Public Service Announcement than a New Sincerity within the den of Modern snark.