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Conran’s was a popular mid-line furniture store on the east side that went under during the 90s, I believe. Owned by Terence Conran. Harry Winston’s is the top jeweler in NYC. He should have given her at least one diamond to get to first base! But I do think The Donald’s one failure as a human being is that he is somewhat frugal.

Oh, and something that was dragged up in my memory bank since he mentioned somebody’s boob job. It was reported back in the early 80s that The Donald was unhappy with Ivana when she showed up with one of those deals.

Conran’s I have never heard about, but Harry Winston's I should have remembered. I spent a lot of time in NYC during the late 80s, early 90s. My brother did his PhD at Columbia. Not that a poor physicist (him) or a similarly economically challenged physiologist (me) spent time at the city's top jeweler, but the girls spoke in jest quite often about that shop (or at least I thought it was in jest at the time, but now I start to wonder...)

However, and don't take me wrong, I love to reminisce about New York, and getting to hear gossip about the rich and famous, but really when I started to follow Freerepublic in 1999 or so, I never thought that a presidential election would be decided by, or even that it would have as a minor issue, characters straight out of Breakfast at Tiffany's and discussions about breast implants.

Well, Breakfast at Tiffany's was maybe a little harsh, and the Clinton's are straight out of “The Manchurian Candidate”, but I hope you see what I mean. One of our few great statesmen, the 17th century Swedish governor Axel Oxenstierna, is supposed to have told his son, as he was on his way to represent Sweden at the peace conference of Westphalia:

“Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?”

The old man was right!