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Article: Breakfast Toast at Tiffany's; Friends Remember Author Truman Capote
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- The Washington Post
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- March 25, 1994
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Everything was there but his ashes.
Blankchecks. Sunglasses. Stationery. Scarves. Driver's
license. His MasterCard. It was a little shrine, in fact, to Truman
Capote, up in the private second-floor viewing rooms of Tiffany's
today.
Random House, his longtime publisher, and Tiffany's invited the
writer's friends to reminisce, hear news of the unlikely disposition
of his estate, and eat - no other meal would have been appropriate -
breakfast.
In 1958, Capote made the jeweler's famous among ordinary folks,
the kind who did their shopping in Woolworth's rather than on Fifth
Avenue. It was just a brief reference in a story about a woman named
Holly Golightly, the kind of waif then ...