Guided by the heart

I met John Quinn last night before dinner. “Stick around this business as long as I have and you can get a drink like this,” he said, taking a glass of wine from a staff member. In Quinn’s other hand was a wooden walking stick with a thinner piece of wood entwined around it like a snake on a branch. I noticed the heart on Quinn’s blue sweater resembled a graphic I had seen on the Chips Quinn Web site. The monogrammed sweater was a Christmas gift from his son, RB, Quinn said. The heart was his late wife’s trademark, included with her signature on letters to friends and loved ones. “She guides me,” Quinn said.

-- Andrew Tran, University of Texas, The Jackson (Tenn.) Sun