Newsmax.com
While writing gossip for the Washington Post and then the New York Daily News,
Lloyd Grove would get up to 10 party invitations a day. Now the invites are down to a trickle, but "I'm so pleased not to go to so many parties any more. ...It did start to wear on me and age me a bit." Grove tells
Ronald Kessler: "In New York, more than in Washington, there are people who always want to give you things. Give you a handmade suit, or jewelry, or liquor, or whatever. ...The culture of swag is very highly developed in New York in a way that it's not in Washington."
