Zipkin

I recall Zipkin vowing over lunch at Mortimer’s that he would never speak to Mrs. Buckley again, after she had seated his date, the Duchess de Cadaval, at Bill’s table at a Costume Institute ball, and put him in Outer Mongolia.

Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Colacello, Bob 2009

I recall Zipkin vowing over lunch at Mortimer’s that he would never speak to Mrs. Buckley again, after she had seated his date, the Duchess de Cadaval, at Bill’s table at a Costume Institute ball, and put him in Outer Mongolia.

Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Bob Colacello 2009

Her favorite escort, Johnny Galliher, who had replaced Zipkin at her card table and in her heart, went in 2003.

Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Colacello, Bob 2009

Other people said Zipkin had gone around town saying Pat had a drinking problem, and it got back to her.

Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Colacello, Bob 2009

Other people said Zipkin had gone around town saying Pat had a drinking problem, and it got back to her.

Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Bob Colacello 2009

As might be expected, the book suffers or some may think benefits from an excess of boldfaced name-dropping: Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, Alfred and Betsy Bloomingdale, Gardner and Jan Cowles, Jerry Zipkin, Claudette Colbert, and Etti Plesch, “an Austrian-born dowager from Monte Carlo known for her prizewinning racehorses and her six rich husbands.”

American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

Her favorite escort, Johnny Galliher, who had replaced Zipkin at her card table and in her heart, went in 2003.

Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Bob Colacello 2009

Zipkin makes lots of ocher mixtures - you can tell by looking at his hands and his clothes.

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In a laboratory at The George Washington University, anthropology student Andrew Zipkin opens a bag of ocher and puts it into a mortar, where he grinds it with a pestle.

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Zipkin's Ph.D. work focuses on ocher, and how to make stuff with it the way ancient humans did.

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