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I agree.coins from a hundred others. Jack Entratter has had this sort of uncanny affinity for show people since the day he lumbered into the French Casino at Miami - he was then only 19-years-old - and got a job a? a reservations clerk. When the season closed he followed the emigrants to New York and became a .floorman at the French Casino there. (A floor man is one who yanks you off the floor and throws you out into the street.) He was still in his early 20?╟╓s when Sherman Billingsley made him host at the Stork Club, and eventually he wound up as a co-owner of the Copacabana, During these insomniac years, Jack met and conquered, as it were, the top personalities in the entertainment business. He was among the first to predict better times for some young unknowns named Peter Lind Hayes, Johnnie Ray, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and Frankie Laine. He had such a sharp eye for feminine beauty that 78 of his Copa girls - June Allyson and Lucille Bremer among them - were inveigled into motion pictures. A couple of years ago, when the pressure began graying his hair and the doctors suggested a change of scene, Jack said good-bye to midnight Manhattan and went West with friends who were planning ''The Sands. '* He took with him a ready-made roster of Thespian ?√ßmore -