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114:'s Roundtable club on East 50th Street. While the club was successful for years, some financial weaknesses with both it and Levy caused it to have what was intended as a temporary closure in 1969. Kannon used that time to try an unsuccessful run in Las Vegas. He returned to that room later in the year, but it did not survive for long after that.
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