Fabrizio Schenardi (chef), Alper Oztok, Marco Pacelli, Kitty Ratcliffe

Arthur G. Sulzberger, son of The New York Times current chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., and great-great-grandson of the paper’s founder, Adolph Ochs, spent hours in our town, while headquartered at the downtown Hilton researching the background on the untimely death of Adrienne Martin at the August Busch IV mansion.  Young Sulzberger is the Kansas City bureau chief for the Times. He filed the story that included chats with locals on their take.  Developer Pete Rothschild: “Now that the brewery is sold everyone can’t wait to pile on the vitriol.” Arthur’s story is headlined, “After a Retreat From Limelight, A Death and Rekindled Anger”. . .Retired A-B distributor and philanthropist Jerry Clinton will marry his beloved Terri Larkin in March in an out-of-town ceremony to be attended by family members. . .FOX2 execs are mum about the disappearance of top-of-the-shelf personality John Auble and only say he’s out for personal issues. . .Creve Coeur Mayor Harold Dielman is mending from heart surgery. . .Christopher Tritto, a scribe at the St. Louis Business Journal, is telling pals that he is ankling the newspaper “to pursue new writing prospects and open myself to opportunities.”  Meanwhile, is radio talker and former KMOV reporter Jamie Alman now doing investigations for KSDK?. . . Power lunch to end all lunches at Cielo in the Four Seasons Hotel was where the inn’s newly annointed g.m., Alper Oztok was introed to regulars Nancy and Ken Kranzberg and St. Louis Convention & Visitor’s Kitty Ratcliffe. Kitty tipped that the 5,000 members of the Council for Exceptional Children will hold its convention here in April, 2016, which will generate 10,500 hotel room nights. Cielo’s exec chef Fabrizio Schenardi and g.m. Marco Pacelli prepared and orchestrated the meals of which no gastronomic fantasy goes unfulfilled. . .Elton John graces the cover of the Feb. 17 issue of Rolling Stone and says in a lengthy interview that he sold all his personal LP collection in 1989 “for $250,000 to somebody in St. Louis,” while raising funds for the newly-founded AIDS Foundation.  “I really regret it now,” he admits. The composer and crooner calls himself “probably the most famous homosexual in the world” and admits annoying “the other homosexual by doing things like playing Rush Limbaugh‘s wedding.”