Anatomy Of A Gossip Item: Yale Kids Banished To Myrtle Beach
Today's Page Six features a byzantine brainteaser of publicist placement:
Yale's newest princes and princesses of Wall Street have been spotted on the Grand Strand and at local hot-spot Spanish Galleon in sunny Myrtle Beach this week, including: Lazard neophyte Steve Sun, Merrill Lynch hottie Lauren Burke, Goldman think-tankers Sara Aronchick and Becca Krauss, Goldman defector Jenny Carter (now at embattled Morgan Stanley), UBS money manager turned BCG consultant and Maxim stringer Liz Gunnison and Blackstone prot g Nate Kempner (wunderchild grandson of Nan Kempner).
So many head-scratching elements to this one. First of all: Does a group of Yale grads in investment banking count as an item? Sure, if you think "Harvard grads send resumes to Conan O'Brien" is breaking news. Then why these kids? They're not particularly notable as socialite spawn (Kempner? Feh.), which has us thinking that this item was planted by Spanish Galleon, the Myrtle Beach "hot-spot." In turn, this leads to the ultimate question: Why the hell is ANY New York column writing about Myrtle Beach? Has anyone been there since Dad got a promotion and bought the condo on Hilton Head? This is just shameful, and we don't even know which publicist involved deserves to be chastized first. (We are, however, open to nominations.)
