The New Yorker reports this week on the OPC tchotchke party held at OPC board member Minky Worden and husband Gordon Crovitz
on March 3 for the club’s first ever Tchotchke Night. The idea was for
members to show-and-tell knick-knacks collected during their foreign
travels.
Ben McGrath of The New Yorker writes: Allan Dodds Frank, the president of the Overseas
Press Club of America, stood before several dozen foreign
correspondents in a penthouse apartment high above Nassau Street
recently and held up a gnarled two-foot-long stick. “I don’t think
we’re going to have to gong anybody, but, if we do, does anybody know
what this is?” he asked.
“Penis bone!” someone called out.
“Yeah, it’s a walrus penis,” Frank, a former Anchorage Daily News reporter,
said. “If somebody’s gone on too long, I’ll start waving it around.”
And so began the O.P.C.’s inaugural Tchotchke Night, an élite form of
war-zone show-and-tell, which prompted questions from participants like
“At what point is it looting?” and “Who else has stolen the ashtray
from the Rex Hotel?” (in Saigon).
Read more “Show-and-Tell” from The New Yorker >>