Buck Off

(Accolades for Monty)
As is typical of New York narcissism, its denizens think that every minute detail of their overblown importance must be broadcast from the heavens, trumpeted in song and story and celebrated with a banquet of the finest meats and cheeses in all the land. Hence, we learned of the death of the guy who designed a coffee cup in the pages of The New York Times. Leslie Buck, a one-time paper company executive who came upon the epoch-shattering decision to put coffee in a paper cup called the Anthora, also known as the blue and white cup with a kind of Greek design, in the 1960s, has died at the age of 87. Hardly a fitting epitaph for a Czech Jew who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald.