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RETIRED. BERNARD TRINK, 72, revered and reviled newspaperman whose "Night Owl" column extolled for nearly four decades the sybaritic pleasures available to expatriate men in Thailand's capital; in Bangkok. The Brooklyn-born Trink covered the city's go-go bars, massage parlors and pubs, making the rounds with his Thai wife in tow, owl medallion around his neck and maroon polyester pants hitched up to his chest. He wrote in a retro style in which prostitutes were "demimondaines," and press releases were preceded by the phrase, "The tom toms have it ..." His signature sign...
Meanwhile, the service sector itself is constantly generating new jobs. Realizing that personal computers were changing the way people work and play, Bob Zyontz and Larry Trink quit comfortable jobs in advertising agencies in 1986 to try to cash in on the new technology. Today their New Jersey-based firm, Princeton Direct, has $6 million in revenues and 14 employees engaged in the business of putting multimedia catalogs and other marketing material on diskettes and CD-ROMs. To keep up with the workload, Zyontz and Trink two years ago brought in computer expert and psychologist Jeff Friedman as a third...
...split plus $4,000 weekly alimony; Bimini Beachboy Adam Clayton Powell, 58, whose estranged wife Yvette, 35, has wearied of waiting for him to return to her in Puerto Rico, has finally filed suit for divorce and separate maintenance of $1,500 a month; Palm Beach Socialite Nancy Wiman ("Trink") Carter Wakeman, 47, an heiress to the John Deere tractor fortune, who wound up a row with her playboy second husband William Wakeman, 44, by pointing a .22 pistol at him, firing one shot into his back when he sneered that she hadn't the nerve to shoot...
...Gosh, we have more fun backstage!" Miss Wiman--"Trink" to her intimates--exclaimed, "the kids are so darn swell. And Durante, he's just the sweetest guy. If anybody gets mad at him, it just breaks his heart. Why, he'll do anything to patch up a squabble. So now, whenever we want him to do anything for us, we just pretend to be sore...
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