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Alex
Hitz celebrates his 35th birthday at Swifty's
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Pat
Patterson
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Nan
Kempner and Adolfo with Brooke Duchin and Alex in the background
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Robert
Caravaggi and Alex Hitz
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Alex
Hitz gave a birthday party for himself yesterday lunchtime at
Swifty’s. Yesterday was also his birthday. He is thirty-five.
Alex often gives a birthday party for himself and they’ve
been written about here. They are always different. One year
he gave a big fancy party for more than a hundred in a big fancy
private club here in town. That was certainly the talk, as they’d
say down in Atlanta where Mr. Hitz hails from.
Last year he had about sixty or so squeezed into a tiny little
notch of a restaurant in the village where he imported his own
silver and
china (and I think maybe even the chandelier). Really, now. There
were some problems with the (chicken) cuisine later on, ahem, or
so I was told. That was certainly the talk too. However, Alex is
a wonderful host and a very nice man to be around. So it’s
always a pleasure to be invited by him. Furthermore, as you may have
gathered, he likes to share the wealth. To which I say, let me at ‘im.
This year there were thirteen of us including Nan Kempner,
Pat Patterson, Peter Vaughan, Brooke and Peter Duchin, Helen O’Hagan, Ellen
Graham, Hiram Williams, Cynthia Kempner, Adolfo, Lisa Fine and of
course, our host. We had Swifty’s gravlax for starters, then
a salad and the famous Swifty’s cheese soufflé. Then
out came the waiters with four large pieces of vanilla merengue cake,
each with a long tall candle in it, and everybody singing Happy birthday.
The merengue slices, alas only went to the birthday babies. They
were: Mr. Hitz, Adolfo, Helen O’Hagan and Liz
Smith who just
happened to be lunching at a table nearby. All Aquariuses, those.
We all helped ourselves to their merengue cake, however and we all
felt like kids at a birthday which is a sensationally silly feeling
in the world of these days, and therefore all the more welcome.
Happy Birthday Alex Hitz, and many many more just like ‘em
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Peter
Duchin
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Cynthia
Kempner
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Lisa
Fine
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Helen
O'Hagan, Peter Vaughan, and Ellen Graham
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Liz
Smith and Kate Coyne
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