D A V I D P A T R I C K CO L U M B I A
David Patrick Columbia
NEW YORK SO CIAL DIARY “There comes a point in everybody’s life where responsibility, authority, and accountability intercept.” Those words were said to me about twenty years ago in an interview I was doing with a man named Tex McCrary. Tex, who was in his late seventies then, had had a long
and successful career as a public relations executive and radio personality. He and his wife, Jinx Falkenburg, were famous in America of the 1940s and 1950s as “Tex and Jinx” on morning WOR radio show, “Hi Jinx.” Tex made the remark in reference to a politician he
knew who was running for re-election. Tex, who was always a Republican and a very early supporter and promoter of Eisenhower, was not optimistic about the man’s chance for re-election. I’ve thought about that particular quote (which Tex McCrary made very
offhandedly over a lunch at “21”) many times in relationship to my own life and of the lives around me. I thought of it again over the weekend with so much of Goldman Sachs. And John Paulson. And Wall Street, in general. I was talking recently with
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Adam Maher and Jeff Pfeifle
Elke and Ben Gazzara
Harry Slatkin and Liliana Cavendish
Cynthia and Dan Lufkin
Chappy and Melissa Morris
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Barbara Regna and Mark Gilbertson