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Stu Bykofsky | Love story
MARTHA SNIDER'S GIFT FROM GOD
By Stu Bykofsky
stuspy@phillynews.com
IT'S
A VERY happy time in the life of Martha Snider, who's just become
engaged to Chip Kurtzman, a director of the Philly office of Deutsche
Banc.
She
admits to having been sad for a while after her marriage to Comcast-Spectacor
Chairman Ed Snider ended in divorce last November.
She
was introduced to Chip through mutual friends and knew "right
off the bat" he was special. They were in his Porsche driving
on the expressway to Chester Springs for dinner at the Yellow
Springs Inn.
"I
looked at him and said, 'Thank you, God,' " Martha told me.
Out
loud?
Yes,
indeed.
What
did Chip say?
"He's
cool. He just smiled."
Their
second date was a Paul Anka concert, but the 45-year-old Martha
shied away from going public about that date. "I really am
a private person."
The
40-year-old Kurtzman proposed on Oct. 5 in a "really private,
really romantic way" that the blondiful Martha won't reveal.
The deal was sealed with a "beautiful, perfect ring, emerald
cut, perfect color and clarity," sighs Martha. "He became
a diamond expert" and picked out the 6-carat dazzler himself.
Prior
to Deutsche, Kurtzman had been with Goldman Sachs for 14 years,
working in wealth management. Among his clients was billionaire
Walter Annenberg.
Each
has two children. Their wedding date is not yet set.
Who
you gonna call?
Not
for ghostbusters, but for dustbusters.
When
his hotel couldn't dry-clean and press the evening wear he needed
for the Sunday night Marion Anderson reception, Danny Glover turned
to the Rittenhouse, where he stayed while he was shooting "Beloved."
Glover
wasn't his guest, but hotel GM David Benton swung into action.
He asked Rittenhouse Cleaners (1703 Pine) owner Arthur Yegyan
if he could handle the cleaning emergency.
He
could - and did.
People
Paper people
The
Philadelphia Achievement in Radio Board of Governors has singled
out nine distinguished radio pros to receive the Kal Rudman 2002
Milestone Award for their careers. The nine will receive an engraved
award at the AIR Awards luncheon today. They are: Bill Campbell
and Joe Niagara (55 years), Georgie Woods (50), Bill Webber (49),
Sid Mark (47), Mary Mason and Louise Williams Bishop (44), Bob
Pantano (25) and Pat Farnack (20). Harry Kalas gets the 2002 Ken
Garland Lifetime Achievement Award...Restaurant Museum chef Tracey
Hopkins' back went out just before a Friday evening cooking class,
so he did the prep work and then sent sous chef Andrew Perekupa
out there to fill in for him...In town to accept the Alumni Award
of Merit from Penn, NBC news foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell
revealed she had been named a "charter trustee," having
served several terms as a trustee. The "charter" title
confers lifetime trustee status on Mitchell, who once worked at
Penn's WXPN and then at KYW NewsRadio.
Celeb
spotting
Longtime
Glenn Tilbrook fan Jakob Dylan brought his band, the Wallflowers,
to the Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd) Friday night for a look-see and wound
up staying for dinner downstairs at Serrano. Dylan, the son of
Bob Dylan, and the Wallflowers hung out by the bar in the back
of the 115-seat room to watch, relatively unnoticed. After dinner,
the Wallflowers took their limo 67 blocks west to the Tower Theater
to catch the Yes concert, while their leader opted to stay behind
for the chance to meet Tilbrook after the show. ("I'm not
even sure if he knows who I am," Dylan humbly told Stu's
Spy)...Former San Antonio Spurs player Sean Elliott and ESPN's
John Saunders were among the Friday night throng at Bleu Martini
(24 S. 2nd), chatting with those in the crowd until they were
corralled by a couple of hot blondes who wanted their attention.
The
last word
Saddam
Hussein asking his parliament what he should do about U.N. demands
that Iraq disarm is like me asking my dog what she would like
for dinner tonight.
My
dog has more independence anyway.
Dan
Gross contributed to this column.
E-mail
Stu Bykofsky at stuspy@phillynews.com or dial up the StuSpyline:
215-854-5963.
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