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Carolyn Heft and Molly Jade Vogel
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Morgan Shara
I met a girl there one night who’d come in with another couple. After they were seated at their banquette I got up the nerve to ask her if she wanted to dance. She looked up at me like I was crazy, looked at her friends, looked back at me, and said “no.” I was so embarrassed I didn’t know what to say so I asked if I could sit down. And she said “yes.” A little more than a year later, we got married. There was another discotheque/nightclub/restaurant in the center of Bridgehampton called The Bulls Head Inn. The Bulls Head was a converted two-story house with a large front porch, a bar and lounge, a restaurant and 38 QUEST
Bradford Rand
a disco room. It was owned sort of woman named Pat by a very glamorous woman Hemingway. She was very named Mrs. Frances Car- laid-back, dressed simply penter, who was married to in a silk blouse hanging a DuPont heir. Frances Car- out over some jeans, a gold penter had a reputation for ring, maybe some gold jangle. Like being quite an Ernest the glamour Heming way girl in the inHeming way, ternational jet not a Mariel set, known for Heming way doing what Heming way. she wanted No actual reand when she lation but she wanted, and look like she with whom could have she wanted, The Bulls Head Inn been on that and having fishing boat a good time in Cuba, or on Kilimanjaro, while she was at it. It’s in the timing. The or at the bullfights in Spain bartender in the lounge/ with Papa. She looked like bar was a lean, outdoorsy his kind of woman. And
Candace Bushnell
she was friendly toward this very young and eternally curious customer, so I was charmed. In fact, my instincts were not off. She told us that Francis Carpenter had taken her all around the world and that it had been an amazing trip. She looked like she took that trip. I thought of Somerset Maugham. They were his characters. The lounge at the Bull’s Head had a pianist who sang named Hugh Shannon, who was well known in cabaret circles in the ’50s. He was famous for one called “Nina Never Knew.” I once asked the muchmissed Nina Griscom if she knew of it. Nina, who took
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James Brynes and Noreen Donovan