Amanda Gordon

This morning, Paul Tudor Jones, Daniel Och and Lee Ainslie started their day with a breakfast of fruit cup and croissants.

Jonathan Franzen’s “The Corrections” was too big to lug around to the New York Public Library’s gala last night. So Ian McEwan’s slim “On Chesil Beach” stayed hidden under a reporter’s notepad until McEwan himself was spotted.

The president of Kenyon College, S. Georgia Nugent, stood in the Grill Room of the Four Seasons restaurant Thursday night with a happy problem.

Harvard University’s crew coach of nearly 50 years, Harry Parker, set his former oarsmen and coxswains straight.

Gary Cohn, chief operating officer and president of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., had an operation on his thumb about a year ago.

The Waldorf-Astoria’s art deco elevator doors opened and out walked Kermit and Miss Piggy, or rather, Brian Mullen, an investment banker, and Liz Mullen, an accountant, dressed as the Muppets.

Wilbur Ross of WL Ross & Co. and his wife, author Hilary Geary Ross, helped host a fundraising dinner last night to support the restoration of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, England, the birthplace of Winston Churchill.

Donna Murphy floated on stage in a purple gown and sang a million dollar version of Cole Porter’s “I Happen to Like New York.”

David and Julia Koch paused in front of a 14th-century prayer niche from Isfahan made of blue ceramic tile.

This was a week of St. Tropez, man-caves, hot novelists, tough bankers and famous producer granddaughters. Here are some highlights you might have missed or still remember.

Tiger Management LLC’s Julian Robertson and William Donaldson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, dined together yesterday at the New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Forum.

Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides was nursing his second Manhattan of the evening -- “It’s my book- tour drink of choice” -- while author Jonathan Franzen enjoyed the city’s silhouette.