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CONTENTS The 400 I ssue 112

THE QUEST 400 Caroline

Astor set the mark for who was who in the 1880s,

rounding the number to an even 400 of the most socially acceptable. This year, we once again present a list of the most prominent players of today—and glimpses of the lustrous parties they attend—even if the number has changed. wITh an InTroducTIon by

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THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY The

many shapes of Society, from the original

grandes dames to today’s publicity-minded.

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A FAMILY IN PHOTOGRAPHS Richard

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and Katherine Leach were once New York’s

“golden couple of music.” Here, their grandson combs the family albums to share scenes of a life rich in friends, music, and travel. by chrIsToPher ThaTcher leach

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SOCIETY’S NEW 400 The by

original Quest 400, as it debuted back in 1995.

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CONTENTS c olumns

SOCIAL DIARY

HARRY BENSON

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FRESH FINDS

FASHION

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REAL ESTATE

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FIRST PERSON

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REAL ESTATE

Insights into upper-echelon Palm Beach real estate from the Koch Team. by brooke kelly

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OPEN HOUSE

Saunders and Associates presents a rare listing on Montauk’s Gold Coast. by brooke kelly

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SOCIAL CALENDAR

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RETROSPECTIVE: YOUNG & THE GUEST LIST

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YOUNG & THE GUEST LIST

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SNAPSHOT

Revisiting “polite society” and the makings of Mrs. Astor’s list. by davId PaTrIck columbIa The author Tom Wolfe was the last of the Gadflies, as remembered by our photographer.

Looking back on a particularly memorable cruise off Mykonos.

TakI TheodoracoPulos

Shopping for warm days and cools nights. by danIel caPPello and elIzabeTh meIgher

Introducing Ala von Auersperg’s collection of beach-to-black-tie staples. by elIzabeTh meIgher From the 18th century to today, much remains at Bannister’s Wharf. by a nn loynd burTon Canyon Ranch introduces luxury condominiums in the Berkshires. by brooke kelly Heading to Afghanistan is a sobering reminder of the ongoing war. by m aTT eversmann

Our guide to August’s social happenings, from Guild Hall to gilded Newport. Toasting some notable parties of the past.

The best summer soirées on the East and West coasts. by brooke kelly

From our archive: cautionary tales and other trysts in the worlds of Society and letters.

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Clockwise from bottom left: Nashville’s Swan Ball is the highlight of the city’s social season; Brooke Astor, photographed by Harry Benson, was a philanthropic leader of Society; Bronson van Wyck at his Greekthemed birthday bash on Mykonos; Richard Leach, whose grandson shares his family’s personal photo albums in this issue; browse our Fresh Finds for the latest paintings for sale at Findlay Galleries in Palm Beach.

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Daniel Cappello ON THE COVER: Ladies checking their makeup during a party in 1955. Photograph by James Whitemore/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images. More images of glamorous parties from today and yesteryear can be seen in the pages of our annual “400” List in this issue.

COURTESY OF CHRISTOPHER THATCHER LEACH; FINDLAY GALLERIES

whose legacies have endured to transcend the realm of Society and bear influence on the cultural, environmental, and political spheres. It also includes the names of those who might go on to become the Astors, Rockefellers, and Vanderbilts of tomorrow. For charity’s sake, let’s hope so. u

PEYTON HOGE (SWAN BALL); HARRY BENSON (ASTOR); ANDREAS WALDSCHUETZ (VAN WYCK);

WHAT’S BOLD TODAY can quickly become old tomorrow. It’s a maxim in fashion, but it holds equal weight in that world of bold-faced names known as Society. This magazine is no stranger to the coterie that famously capitalizes its own “S”: founded over three decades ago as an Upper East Side staple dropped with the doormen up and down Park Avenue, Quest has chronicled the comings and goings—and the rise and fall—of many a famous Manhattan name. From the rich to the ridiculous, the bookish to the brash, Society is a class in ever-shifting flux. This fact is illustrated more eloquently in a story this month by our editor in chief, David Patrick Columbia, a scribe who’s built a career on bearing witness to—and chronicling—the ins and outs of Society. Though some might bristle at the self-promotion of those who maneuver for a top rung on the social ladder, David reminds us that a lot of good often comes from it— namely, the endowment of philanthropies that bolster the whole of society (with a lower-case “s”). This gold-trimmed copy in your hands marks our annual “400” Issue, Quest’s yearly compendium of who’s who among the social set in New York and beyond. Named after the numeric cap on Caroline Astor’s invitation lists for her elaborate Fifth Avenue fêtes, it’s a reminder of perennial family names that never seem to go out of fashion—those

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NEW YORK SO CIAL DIARY WHEN I STARTED THIS Diary in Quest 25 years ago, the world we covered was dominated by the rising stars of “Nouvelle Society,” a term coined by the irascible publisher and owner of Women’s Wear Daily, John Fairchild. They were the women (and the men) who prospered and acquired prominence in the fashionable world of the rich,

the chic, and the shameless. One of the readers’ favorites was the occasional “blind item,” which would spin a tail of persons and their private relationships. None of them were big private secrets so much as the things people didn’t talk about in “polite society.” That meant particularly anything having to do with sex and, in one way or an-

other, money. And the blind item was what I would then have called “power copy” because the stories were only a secret to the great big world out there who wouldn’t have known the characters if they were named. The members of this “polite society” usually knew, if they wanted to know. Writing this Diary for our August 2018 issue, I’m re-

minded of how the summertime in New York—which meant other locales like Newport or Southampton or the mountains and lakes around us, or the Mediterranean over there—always harvested these “blind items.” Because people were using their leisure and vacation time to create them while living it up. Today these items would

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seem quaint or irrelevant (like: “been there, done that”) because we now live in a society where everything is spelled out and lived with everyone to see or notice. Or take a selfie of. In fact, we live in a time where the cell phone is the new religion and it almost totally occupies its converts to the point where nothing else is even remotely interesting, no matter the prurience or scandal—or serious, even fatal danger—it used to imply. We have moved on. In some ways we have become more serious. Philanthropy since that time has had an overhaul, a re-definition, 22 QUEST

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driven to a great degree by enterprising women taking a problem to be solved into their own hands. This is nothing new but what is new is the volume, the numbers of people engaging in it. This is not new but now it is flourishing. This is a hopeful sign. That is really the New Society, if there is one. But social behavior itself has really been upstaged by the social rites of technology. With that said, this is our annual issue for the Quest 400 list. Many readers have heard or known for generations of the original “400” list. It was created by a man named Ward McAllister in

the late 1880s for Caroline Astor. Mrs. Astor, or Lina, as she was known to friends, was born in 1830, the ninth child of an old New York family descended from the original Dutch settlers. Her father was a successful ship owner and her mother was from the Van Cortlandt family—after whom the city park is named. Her middle name, Webster, was the last name of her mother’s friend, Mrs. Daniel Webster. In 1853, when she was 23, Lina married William Backhouse Astor, Jr., a grandson of the first John Jacob Astor who created the family for-

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In the late 1860s, after the Civil War, the city began to grow quickly in the midst of the American Industrial Revolution, attracting, among others, wealthy families from the other parts of the country. The influx stimulated Lina Astor’s interest in her neighbors—as to who of the newcomers was acceptable, and who was not; behavior and etiquette were primary to her. She made it her domain, and assumed the role of social arbiter of New York. That was possibly not conscious on her part because the woman’s role of that age remained subservient. Today it is called setting the style. By the 1870s, with the city booming and her children growing up, Lina Astor began her entertaining. Her house had been designed for that 24 QUEST

with a large ballroom that could comfortably accommodate more than 300. Lina Astor held cotillions and masked balls there. She played the role of Madame Queen, bedecked, drenched even, in diamonds (“a girl’s best friend”) and entertained like royalty, appealing with her decorum and her power. Ward McAllister, who advised and assisted her in putting together her guest list, told the press that there were only about 400 people in New York worthy of one of Mrs. Astor’s invitations. And they only included those who had “left their card” at Mrs. Astor’s door. (Remember, there were no telephones yet.) Press coverage of “Society” in those days was enormous and detailed. There were few photographs (none

in the early days of her reign) and there was copious detail of everything from the menu served to the garments of the guests, as well as the “lists.” Although Mrs. Astor’s ballroom capacity numbered less than the alleged 400, the nice round number stuck and the term “the 400” came into the American vernacular, commonly used throughout the new century, referring to people who either had a high social profile or had pretenses to it. Today in New York, a much bigger city in a much smaller world, society as it was known in Mrs. Astor’s day no longer exists, although there is a large number of people of ancestral social prominence far exceeding 400. Truman Capote, his own kind of social arbiter, once

estimated that there were/ are about 5,000 people who know each other by no more than three degrees of separation, in the social sense. Quest’s 400 is substantially smaller in number (although more than 400)—the idea is the same. Although it wouldn’t have occurred to her, Mrs. Astor’s famous “social activity,” alighted by that number 400, defined the popular idea of Society throughout 20th-century America. It was a natural reflection of a woman’s personal ambition and prosperity that made this country famous to the world as the “land of opportunity.” Today the Quest 400 List is a reflection of that same spirit: opportunity. The month just passed was mainly a hot one and a quiet

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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A one in New York. The social energy is ablaze elsewhere, such as in that bevy of billionaire towns known now under the catch-all name of the Hamptons. Mrs. Astor wouldn’t recognize that either. If she were living today and out in the world, she’d probably still be up in Newport planning her next corporate acquisition. Newport, I’m assuming, is a little less frenetic and more down home; as well as Aspen, where the intelligentsia is happy playing tennis and catching the cultural canoodling among the firs. New York City is quiet but the energy is still operating. Earlier in the month, the

obsession was about “RealFeel.” That being what the temperature felt like night and day. If it were 82 degrees, the RealFeel might be 102 degrees. Air conditioners were humming in the apartment neighborhoods. Living in a Frigidaire used to be the expression. And so we were. At 6:30 on a Sunday afternoon, the weatherman issued an “excessive heat warning—stay inside.” The temperature was 95 and the RealFeel 102. I’d been staying inside except to run some errands. The day around the Fourth, the city was predictably quiet, for many were taking their vacations, and those

who weren’t were using the middle of the week holiday to justify taking the whole week. I like the “quiet time” to reflect and read. I was doing some research in my personal diaries for a future story. A couple of weeks before I had seen Princess Yasmin Aga Khan at Leonard Stern’s fabulous 80th birthday bash. Yaz or Yazzie, as she is called by her many friends, is the half-sister of Karim, the Aga Khan, and the daughter of the famous Aly Khan who was married to Yaz’s mother, Rita Hayworth. In the years following Rita’s death from Alzheimer’s, Yaz started the Alzheimer’s Association’s Rita Hayworth

Gala. That was 34 years ago and it has since raised tens of millions of dollars for Alzheimer’s care, support, and research programs. I never met Rita Hayworth, but in 1978, the first year I was living in Los Angeles, she was the first real movie star I saw. It was at a dinner dance at the Bistro Garden restaurant in Beverly Hills given by a woman named Contessa Cohn. Contessa Cohn’s birth name was something a little more familiar to the American mindset, something like Judy or Mary. However, everyone called her Contessa, including the Los Angeles Times, and her name felt as

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On the night of this party, she wore a white chiffon long dress that moved in the dance like Ginger Rogers’ and Rita Hayworth’s dresses when dancing with Fred Astaire. It should also be noted that a performance, which is what Contessa’s number was, was staged in the land of the Dream Factory, where there was a spot of amateurs. It is taken very seriously from conception, no matter if you’re pro or not. You never know when there might be some talent scout or producer lurking. On the dance floor, Contessa was as lithesome and agile as Ginger or Rita. I still recall one moment in the dance when her partner lifted her, swinging her and her chiffon around as he turned, and she landed perfectly gracefully in step. That took rehearsal! Applause! Applause! However, what was most memorable about the evening

of my dancing hostess was being seated at a banquette directly across from the actual Rita Hayworth! She was with a man whom I did not know at the time but knew who he was—Hermes Pan—Fred Astaire’s co-choreographer and a Hollywood legend in the history of film musicals. As it happened, a couple of years later, I met Hermes and eventually wrote a memoir for him. He had been close to Rita from her teenage years when she was working as a dancer— Margarita Cansino—at the RKO Studios, long before Columbia Pictures mogul Harry Cohn (no relation to Contessa) made her a star as Rita Hayworth. In a very real way, I got to know Rita without ever meeting her, but that’s another Diary entirely. Meanwhile, here in New York on a Wednesday night, Cathy Graham hosted a cocktail reception for Alexis Clark and her new book, En-

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emies in Love. I’ve known the author for several years. I first met her when she was an editor at Town & Country under Pamela Fiori. She is one of the most beautiful editors that ever served on the magazine. In fact, her beauty precedes her entering any room. She’s also a Texas girl, and like so many of those New Yorkers from down deep in the heart of….she exudes a quiet and gracious (and sophisticated) presence. She’s clearly a dynamic and ambitious young woman. Also a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, Alexis has a master’s in government from UVA, and a BA in political science from Spelman College, but in getting to know her you meet that kind and gentle disposition that is also her charisma. The “enemies” in her book (non-fiction) are a couple who met during the Second World War when the man,

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deal with just to get by in the Jim Crow era. It was openly, deeply oppressive, 24/7. As bad as it is today in these harried times, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., brought us out of Jim Crow and closer to real world of All as One. However, Ms. Powell and Herr Albert had the natural fortitude and became a couple and eventually a family. The road to, and along the way, was predictably difficult. But you have to read Alexis’s book to find out what happened when “love conquers all”—when it does naturally in so many, if not all, relationships, for the duration. From the outside looking

in, they were a courageous and admirable pair for taking the chance of going up against the Zeitgeist of those times. It’s a compelling story on how they got there, and good for all of us, because like any couple entering a marriage relationship, two different points of view do not always conjoin copacetically. Alexis began the project with multiple grants from the Ford Foundation for her research on African-American nurses in World War II. She first wrote about the topic in 2013. Some of the guests who came to Cathy Graham’s

were: Susan Fales-Hill, Deborah Roberts, Boaty Boatwright, Tracey Jackson, Amy Fine Collins, Karen Phillips, Jacqueline Decter, Olivia Flatto, Charles Fagan, Elizabeth Peabody, Carlos Picón, Maurice and Andrea DuBois, Charles Atkins, and Shirley Madhere. I’m devoting the rest of this Diary to a talk that I unfortunately didn’t attend but later learned about and was given a copy of. A few weeks ago, on a Thursday over at Hunter College, our friend Larry Leeds (Class of 1941 Hunter College Model School) was honored with the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Larry, who turned a youthful 89 recently, absolutely charmed the students and families with a serious personal speech that included anecdotes about growing up in the city in the 1930s, bringing reality up to date. His life-advice definitely made an impression on the graduates. I’m re-printing it because, although it was intended for the ears of the young ones, it rings several truths and experiences that we adults have all shared and thought all our lives. I realize, having been one myself, that children hear reality differently because they have only entered the age of discovery. But I don’t doubt that among those listening there were some who will always remember, having thought about, some of Larry’s words of experience (a.k.a. wisdom). Larry Leeds: “Let me be32 QUEST

gin by saying how honored I am to be here today as an alumnus of this fine institution, and I want to thank Niva and Alok for that kind introduction. I entered the first grade of Hunter College School (or as it was called, the Hunter College Model School) in 1935. As I know you are all math whizzes, you have calculated that I am 89; I actually just began my 90th year this past Sunday. How the world has changed during my lifetime. I left Hunter after six years when the Sixth Grade School ceased for the boys. It was no longer coed, but was girls only. I felt disappointed and sad when I was told I had to leave, as I really loved Hunter. One of the vivid memories of my years at Hunter was when my mother woke me up one night at 2 a.m. We were living at 68th Street between

Lexington and Park. Hunter College, both then and now, occupied the block right across from where I lived. Therefore, with my eyes, I witnessed a gigantic fire that totally destroyed the building, which all Hunter Schools occupied. That happened in the second grade. They moved the school’s classes to Temple Emanu-El and we remained there several years before returning to the new classrooms at the rebuilt site. Going back to the fact that we poor boys were kicked out at the end of the sixth grade: an interesting anti-discrimination lawsuit was filed by families many years later in the 1970s claiming that such discrimination against us poor boys was illegal, and the school was forced to let its male students continue their education at Hunter. My memories of Hunt-

er have naturally faded, but there are few which remain. In the fifth grade, we took a course in etymology (the study of the derivation of words and the way their meanings changed over time). Our teacher’s name was Mrs. Rugrotski, and I remember our loving nickname for her was Rat-Face Rugrotski. She was a toughie, but this course was not taught in any other fifth grade in New York City, I found. The study of the origin of the English language is really amazing. I commend my mother for making the decision during the heart of the Great Depression to enroll me in this great school. My education at Hunter has stood me in good standing. After Hunter I went to seventh and eighth grades at Riverdale Country Day School, then I had four years of high school at Lawrenceville, followed by four

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your parents as well to rejoice in your achievements. Your parents have high hopes for you; they believe in the you they support. In turn you are about to become teenagers. Hopefully right now you have warm, positive, and loving relationship with your parents. During the teenage years, you will find yourself separating somewhat and reducing your total dependency on your parents. You will probably decide that you know much more than your parents—that you are smarter than your parents, and that your parents are silly, old-fashioned, and do not understand you. This dynamic tends to lead to some extraordinarily passionate and combative discussions and arguments. Please keep in mind that your parents love and adore you, and are devoted to enhancing your well-being.

I remember well my agonies when my children battled with me, and how even though I was sure that I was right, they made me feel terrible. I urge you to keep in mind that your parents love you, and try not to talk to them in a way that really makes them unhappy. You are not the only one who has feelings. They have feelings too. It is quite devastating and painful for parents to hear their children speak poorly of them and dismiss their well-intended advice as stupid and idiotic. Some more advice: drugs are seductive but destructive. Cocaine, heroin, opioids, amphetmines are deadly. I know so many people who have died from drug use, including my own son. Even marijuana, which may soon be legalized, is dangerous, and prolonged usage can adversely affect your brain. You will be exposed in the future years to friends

who will tempt and pressure you to join them in imbibing or smoking these drugs. I can only tell you that you will be a lot healthier and a more successful person by never going near them. Just say no—it is that simple! Remember—you heard this from a father who still grieves for the loss of his son. My son Cary was a great tennis player, who went to Collegiate and Yale, played 64 U.S. Opens and five Wimbledons, and became the 12th-ranked Doubles Player in the world. He tried crack cocaine once, became totally addicted, lived another 20 years, and died at age 45. His story should make you think twice before you do something that could cause you to ruin your life and that of your family. On a different note: the world and New York City were far different when I was attending Hunter Mod-

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and family face to face—not on FaceTime?! I think you should try to reduce the addiction so many of us have of staring at the screens of our smartphones. There are a lot of interesting apps and experiences you can find on these phones, but there is much more to life than what you see on the screen. I tell my grandchildren when you are riding in the car, especially with me, try to stop looking at your phone and look out the window and observe all the things out there. Try not to be obsessed with Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram. They are all useful, but there is more to life. Observe the world through your own eyes, not just through the screen or your phone. While life is full of challenges, obstacles, hurdles, and distractions, I remain

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one-hundred percent optimistic in the fact that you are going to be living in an exciting world with so many great new technological developments. Looking at an amazing future, I would be surprised if no one in this class ever visits the moon or even lives there. And before you blast off to the moon, you soon will be riding in cars with autonomous drivers and no human hands touching the steering wheels. Artificial Intelligence is going to augment and, in many cases, surpass your own intellectual capabilities. Medical advances will have you living longer and healthier lives. Hopefully, there will be cures for such dreadful diseases as cancer and Alzheimer’s. By the time you are in your mid-60s, hopefully life expectancy will be over 100. Summing it up, you are

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indeed a fantastically lucky bunch. With this educational head start which you have received here at Hunter, you are launched into a position in which you have a strong and high probability of leading a productive career and having a happy and healthy life. One last thought: with the advantages you have had, think how you can help others and what contributions you can make to make this world a better place because you are here. By helping others, you will be able to share and spread the benefits that come from a Hunter education. I admire you, I salute you, and I thank you for the opportunity to share your special day with you. Love and Congratulations.” And same to you, dear reader; may you have a great rest of the summer. u

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little bit of the talent and the glitter rub off. Although Tom Wolfe and I were only acquaintances, my wife, Gigi, and I are good friends with the talented artist Elizabeth Thompson, who was a longtime friend of Tom and his wife, Sheila. When we asked her to tell us how she remembered him, she thought for a moment and replied: “Tom was one of kind and kind. Sheila was Tom’s sounding board, reader, muse, and soul mate. Delight, surprise, and comet-force twinkle were as natural as breathing, especially when Tommy and Alexandra (their children) were within range. Everything about him was real—impeccable manners, that inimitable style, endless imagination, and friendship. How lucky we were.” We agree. How lucky all of us were to have encountered, even in a fleeting moment, his brilliance. ◆ AUGUST 2018 81

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AUGUST IS THE TIME for cruising. Once upon a time cruising the Med was fun, especially around the French Riviera. Now the sea is full of garbage, and the ports are packed with horror mega-yachts, while most Italian, Spanish, and French resorts are overrun by sweaty tourists. That leaves Greece, whose Ionian and Aegean islands are still unspoiled except for Mykonos, Spetse, and Corfu. I’ve been cruising every summer for exactly 60 years, so picking out the best trip among so many is a Herculean task, but I will nevertheless try. There were some memorable ones with Gianni 82 QUEST

Agnelli in the ’60s, some good ones with Bill Buckley in the ’70s, a few with some unmentionables, and an unforgettable decadent one with Leopold Bismarck and Mark Getty, but the funniest of all was 25 years ago, in Mykonos. We were eight: Chuck Pfeifer, a double silver star winner with the Special Forces in Vietnam, and a stripper he picked up on his way to join my boat in Greece. Michael Mailer, son of Norman, ex-Harvard and Golden Gloves boxing champion and movie producer, with a Californian airhead beauty who had left an NFL blonde quarterback making 10 million per year “because I found out

he was cheating on me.” (When she told us her story we were lost for words; one simply cannot be so stupid.) Then there was Richard Johnson, the wellknown New York Post columnist, and a very old friend who is now married to a Richthofen but at the time was married to his second wife. And my close friend, John Mosley, a black American football player who was captain of Notre Dame, was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys, was badly hurt, and now works for the New York Yankees. John’s brothers were all in the military and I knew his mother, a very nice lady. The Mose, as we call him, has been the butt of a lot of jokes

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TA K I but he gives as much as he takes. Mosley was a confirmed bachelor so we put him up in a single cabin. I had told my wife that this was a boys’ cruise and she had given me her blessing. I had brought a London blonde airhead along, one who my friends eventually named Miss American Express, as she had abused my credit card to an unacceptable degree. We headed for Mykonos, the sin capital of the Aegean, an island that used to be a whorehouse in ancient times, where returning soldiers would stop for recreation. We dropped anchor in a bay near the town and were walking to the port when two New York wise guys

here, we asked. “I jumped into the back of a cab, got the driver in a headlock, and told him to drive or I’d make him my bitch for the night.” “So what did the Greek do?” I asked. “He drove,” said Mose. Later in the week, we ended up in my favorite outdoor bar and waited for my usual table. On that particular night, the waiter running things was keeping it for someone well known. We asked him what we had to do for it—the girls were getting very impatient—so the waiter in charge, a very gay Mykonian, said we could have it if he could kiss Richard Johnson, a tall, very good looking,

the airhead never mentioned it. I decided right there and then that the quarterback was a lucky man. She also misplaced her ring and I ordered the crew to tear the boat apart and find it because I could already read the Epstein-Epstein & Goldfarb letter demanding a couple of millions for a ring that probably cost around $100. Still, it was a great cruise. It taught Greek racist taxi drivers that not all black Americans are muggers, and a couple of Jewish New Yorkers to ask for the time politely. I also learned a lesson: Never give your credit card out to blondes from England whose names

Left to right: Taki’s funniest cruising trip of all time took place 25 years ago in Mykonos; John Mosley, a former player for the Dallas Cowboys who now works for the New York Yankees, and Richard Johnson, a columnist for the New York Post, in 2005.

wearing skullcaps asked Mosley for the time. They sort of ordered it, and were quite impolite about it. Michael grabbed one of them and demanded how did they know the Mose spoke English. “He’s a Nubian prince,” said Michael. They seemed nonplussed as Mosley walked over to them looking menacing. “Yo motherfucker,” said John and we all collapsed laughing. Later in the evening we all got back on the boat but Mosley was missing. When he finally arrived, we asked him what had happened. “These Greek taxi drivers wouldn’t take me because I’m black,” said John. So how did he get

blonde straight man. “No way,” said Richard. “You gotta do it for the team,” we yelled in unison. So he did and we got the table, and ever since then we whisper about Richard’s kiss in Mykonos to his great discomfort. On our last day, I took everyone up at the Acropolis, where we marveled at what the ancient Greeks had built. That is when Michael’s Californian airhead came up with the best line of the week: “Gee, come on over you guys, from here we can see the Hilton.” This was an extra low blow, because next to the Hilton there was—and is—another hotel called the Caravel, back then owned by me, but

are not the same as counties. Last but not least, strippers need guidance while on board. Chuck’s stripper turned out to be as nice as she looked, and she looked very good. But she liked the sound of running water at night and left her shower on while she slept. In the morning there wasn’t a drop of water left. We went 24 hours dry while the water-making machine worked overtime. Pfeifer never noticed and didn’t even bother to apologize for her. “Your showers don’t work” was the only thing he said to me at the end of the cruise. u For more Taki, visit takimag.com. AUGUST 2018 83

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Dennis Basso makes warming up to the fall season easy with his warm gray/charcoal/ camel mink striped hooded jacket with zipper, charcoal sequin tweed top, and charcoal denim trousers. Dennis Basso: Forever a favorite:

825 Madison Ave., 212.794.4500.

the Rolex Lady Datejust 28 in Everose gold. $25,750. Visit rolex.com for more information and retail locations.

Relaxed and unassuming, the Train mule— Stubbs & Wootton’s new summer loafer—is the perfect fit in natural woven straw and black raffia. $450 at stubbsandwootton.com.

Man’s best friend is now immortalized in the form of this sterling silver golden retriever, handmade in England with a protective With a handcrafted AMG 4.0-liter V8 biturbo engine, AMGdeveloped suspension, and AMG-specific transmission modes—plus a new interior with optimal widescreen cockpit—the new 2019 Mercedes-AMG G63 has undergone the greatest change in its history while remaining true to form. Mercedes-Benz: G-Class SUVs from $142,800 at mbusa.com. 86 QUEST

felt bottom. $345. Exclusively at Scully & Scully: 504 Park Ave., 212.755.2590.

Elevate any occasion by reaching for George Jensen’s Koppel crystal glasses in sterling silver with silver wire. $795. George Jensen: 698 Madison Ave., 212.759.6457.

It’s easy to get wrapped up in Charlotte Kellogg’s pink flower sweater ($225) and scarf ($195), made in Nepal of a cashmere and silk blend. Available at charlottekellogg.com.

Summer getaways are always picture-perfect on the shores at Ocean House, Rhode Island’s AAA Five-Diamond and Forbes Five-Star resort. To reserve, call 888.552.2588.

Hand Melons, grown by John Hand on a small family farm, are picked in August at the height of their maturity, ensuring only the

Slip into style in this silk evening dress by Ralph Lauren Collection. $2,990 at select Ralph Lauren stores

most delicious cantaloupes. Hand Melon Farm: 533 Wilbur Ave., Greenwich, N.Y., 518.692.7502.

and ralphlauren.com.

Trim your office with traditional, handmade Italian paper accessories for desk and home. A variety of patterns and colors are available at Leta Austin Foster Boutique: 64 Via Mizner, Palm Beach, 561.655.7367.

Kick things up a notch in Stuart Weitzman’s KIKI in Oro. $898. Stuart Weitzman: 625 Madison Ave., 212.750.2555.

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Dangle this on for size: Vhernier’s Freccia bracelet in 18-kt. rose gold and turquoise. $20,100. Vhernier: 783 Madison Ave. or 55 Wall St., 646.343.9551.

Delightfully fresh, Bonterra’s Dry Muscat is organically farmed and, with its natural citrus and intriguing warm spice, the perfect match for summer meals. $16 at bonterra.com.

If your walls call for inspiration, look to Simeon Braguin’s Abstraction 79, an acrylic on canvas (48 x 60"), which makes for a fresh addition to any room. Price upon request. Findlay Galleries: 165 Worth Ave., Palm Beach, 561.655.2090.

Be there with bells on in J.McLaughlin’s Bells Beach Wrap Dress in neo sanibelfan, one of the label’s latest arrivals for summer. $278 at jmclaughlin.com.

From the Casa de Campo Open—now in its 37th year, running Sept. 12 to 16—to the new Casa de Campo Pete Dye Celebration Pro-Am in November, Caribbean golf season is swinging into high gear. For more information and to reserve, visit casadecampo.com.do. 88 QUEST

Sea Star Beachwear’s Beachcomber espadrille in orange eyelet is an eye-catching option for the beach and beyond. $96 at seastarbeachwear.com.

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BY ELIZABETH MEIGHER WITH THE CONCEPT of clothing that can be worn from “beach to black tie” in mind, Ala von Auersperg (née Princess Annie Laurie “Ala” von Auersperg) launched her eponymous collection in 2015. Happily married to Ralph Isham and the mother of four grown children, Ala Isham had painted and drawn for over a decade before entering the world of fashion. She has also been an outspoken philanthropist and a tireless advocate for victims’ rights from an early age, founding the nonprofit National Center for Victims of Crime in 1985, and the Brain Trauma Foundation (then the Sunny Von Bülow Coma and Head Trauma Research Institute) in 1986. To create her namesake clothing line, Isham simply lifted her whimsical paintings of tropical flowers and delicate sea coral straight from her canvases and digitally printed them onto lightweight, easy-to-wear silk, linen, and mesh. The daughter of Prince Alfred von Auersperg and Sunny Crawford von Bülow, Isham talks with us here about the lessons she has learned from Above: Ala Isham of Ala von Auersperg. Opposite: Ala von Auersperg’s Aida Celeste Dress in mesh, $752, inspired by Verdi’s 18th-century opera Aida. AUGUST 2018 91

her beautiful and impeccably dressed mother, as well as her own understanding of the needs of the modern woman. Q: Congratulations on building such a beautiful and successful brand in only three years! What initially inspired you to launch your collection back in 2015? A: It all started with painting and drawing lessons that I was taking from a fabulous artist and teacher from the NY Studio School. At the time, I was making dresses with my talented friend, Antonio Gual, for myself and for my daughtersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;looks that were travel-friendly and lightweightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perfect for Antigua, where we spend the winter. The fabrics that I use are so light and breathable that I began playing with the idea of layering them, allowing for the drawings to move with the movement of the woman wearing them. Layering not only looks amazing, but it also quietly conceals parts of our bodies that we might not always feel comfortable showing off. Within a few months, friends were calling to tell me how at ease and chic they felt in my clothes, and I was thrilled. My hope is for every woman who 92 QUEST

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Q: I know that your grandmother, Annie Laurie Aitken, and undoubtedly your mother, Sunny Crawford von Bülow— both women of tremendous style and beauty—have helped mold your design aesthetic. What are some of the ways in which they have influenced you, your style, your art, and your creations? A: Both my mother and my grandmother had an innate sense of what was beautiful, and each unassumingly surrounded themselves with things of great quality. Whether they were decorating a room or getting dressed for an evening out, everything was always absolutely exquisite. Of course, it was never belabored or contrived; it was just who they were as women and how they lived. I suppose that my appreciation for art comes from my grandmother. She was a sculptress in her own right, a student of French architecture, and a collector of 18th-century French and English furniture. And my mother was really one of the most stylish women of her time, on top of being the greatest mother I could ever imagine. She adored Givenchy and YSL and had fittings with them every few years in Paris. In the early 1970s, she made the first big donation of haute couture to the Met Costume Institute, which kind of put the institute on the map. I’d like to think that I absorbed some of their aesthetic and I certainly try to channel both my mother and my grandmother in my designs, but through a 21st-century lens. Q: After three years, are you still having fun with all of this? A: It should be illegal to have this much fun! I really do love what I do. Q: Your daughter, Sunny, leads the creative and brand direction for Ala von Auersperg. What’s it been like working with your daughter? Have you enjoyed keeping it all in the family (I can relate!)? A: Working with my daughter Sunny is truly astounding. Mothers and their daughters don’t typically work together, so when they do, and when they witness each other not as mother and daughter but as legitimate businesswomen, it’s impossible not to be impressed.

This page: Emilie longbell-sleeve mesh dress in Nonsuch print, $685. Opposite page, clockwise from top left: Henriette “Hetti”

Q: Daisy Prince wrote a lovely article about your line when it first launched, mentioning that your aunt, Hetti Von Bohlen, used to host fabulous dinner parties—attended by everyone from the Gettys to Yves Saint Laurent and the Rolling Stones—to which your mother and grandmother would wear fantastic kaftans. Any chance you might be willing to share an anecdote from one of those dinners? Our minds are exploding with “über-chic”-ness just envisioning what one of those evenings must have been like! A: Hetti and my mother were very close friends but their paths separated somewhat when Hetti married Arndt and started her incredible life in Marrakesh and Salzburg. Sadly, I was too young to hang out with her crowd in Morocco in the heyday of her fabulous parties. However, I did get to meet the ultimate kaftan king, Adolfo de Velasco, with Hetti a few years after the

von Auersperg von Bohlen und Halbach photographed by Lars Borges; Henriette long Moroccan Silk Double Georgette kaftan in Tulum/ Nonsuch print, $1,650; Sunny von Bülow during a party at her London home in 1968; Blue Coral Georgette Short Kaftan, $741, shown over Ala von Auersperg’s White Tank Dress, and styled with matching Georgette Obi belt.

parties calmed down. He made the most beautiful bejeweled kaftans I have ever seen. Everyone passing through Marrakesh at that time had one. And although we never met the Stones in Marrakesh (I did eventually meet them in New York), I do remember Richard Gere passing through. Hetti had never seen any of his movies so she was able to keep her cool when he showed up. I, on the other hand, was so star-struck that I could hardly speak when he walked through the front door. Hetti was wonderful about trailing us around to all of her glamorous parties. I borrowed all of her de Velasco kaftans, which inspired many of the kaftans in my current collection—they are truly the easiest way to look chic in warm climates. Q: I love that idea that your clothing was born from the concept of “beach to black tie.” What are some of the most memorable moments you’ve had wearing your own designs? Any surprising or unforgettable moments you’ve experienced seeing (or hearing about) someone else wearing your creations? A: Since I started designing, I have always worn my clothes in Antigua, but now I wear them all over the place. My husband and I just got back from Capri, where I packed a small suitcase with all of my clothes rolled up inside (most of my clothes don’t 94 QUEST

Q: At a young age, you and your brother, Alexander Auersperg, co-founded the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) in honor of your mother, Sunny von Bülow. Over the years, the organization that the two of you founded has become a cornerstone in securing rights, resources, and protection for victims of crime in America. I recently read that you pledged to take a part of the proceeds from sales of your designs to support programs that fight crimes against women. Is this a policy that you are still currently pursuing? How else have your endeavors on behalf of victims’ rights played a role in your career as a studio artist and clothing designer? A: I have always been passionate about putting an end to crimes against women, particularly now; I have two daughters and two granddaughters. When a woman suffers from a crime like domestic violence, sexual harassment, or rape, they lose their strength, confidence, beauty—really everything—in one fell swoop. Through the National Center for Victims of Crime, we work to get these women (and men) back on their feet through financial support and counseling and by offering a wide variety of resources including DNA resources, legal representation to fight for restitution, and training programs for those who work in the field of victims rights. When we launched, rights for victims of crime were nonexistent—so we went to court, we campaigned, we lobbied, and we managed to get legislation passed in all 50 states to protect those who have been victimized. Ala von Auersperg donates an annual percentage of sales to the NCVC in order to help with the center’s incredible work. Additionally, when we host trunk shows around the country, we always donate a percentage to a local charity in need. In Houston, we donated to the Houston Area Women’s Shelter after Hurricane Harvey. In Minneapolis, we donated to the Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. In Florida we donated to the Wayside House Treatment Center for Women. And this past April, we were honored by the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club at their annual Salute to Style for the work that we have done in supporting children in the five boroughs of New York. Q: What’s left on the horizon? A: I’d love to expand into the lifestyle market. I see so many clients wearing my clothes at home while entertaining friends and family. It seems like a natural progression to use my artwork in ways that bring family and friends together while entertaining. u

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wrinkle). One day I wore one of our signature designs—the blue Sea Rope poncho—over my bathing suit on the beach in the afternoon, and then dressed it up with the Sea Rope tank top and pants for dinner that same evening. I love the simplicity of adding a layer and totally changing the look. A dear friend, who was also one of my first customers, wore one of my designs for her last dinner in Palm Beach before heading back north for the summer. At the end of the dinner, she jumped in the pool with it on. A month later, she wore the same outfit to an IYRS benefit in Newport, Rhode Island, which she co-chaired. Now that’s beach to black tie!

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This page: Camille Silk Georgette sheath dress in Tulum print, $1,700. Opposite page: Princess Ala von Auersperg photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Munich, Germany, 1980; Black and Coral Stretch Pants, $369; Ala von Auersperg’s “getaway box.”

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THE WHARF THAT BANNISTER BUILT BY ANN LOYND BURTON IN 1742, JOHN BANNISTER’S self-named wharf helped put Newport on the map as a busy commercial hub in the 18th and 19th centuries, acting as the lifeline that connected the “City by the Sea” to more established metropolises like New York. Now home to a bustling array of shops and eateries, Bannister’s Wharf has a storied history: It was where Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry returned from the victorious battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812, and home to Gilbert Stuart

(famed for drawing the George Washington portrait now on the dollar bill), who lived in a hovel on the Wharf. After years (nay, decades) of deterioration, David Ray set out to restore the Wharf to its original splendor in the early ’70s. He moved Clarke Cooke House (built in 1780 by its namesake sea captain on nearby Thames Street) to Bannister’s Wharf, and it has been a treasured Newport institution ever since. In 1977, Bannister’s Wharf hosted the success-

This page, clockwise from top left: Today, Bannister’s Wharf is home to an assortment of shops and eateries; Clarke Cooke House, built in 1780, was moved to Bannister’s Wharf in the 1970s; a summer hotspot, the Wharf is also a popular fall destination, pictured in Thanksgiving 2016;

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once home to 18th-century steamers, Bannister’s marina now holds large yachts. Opposite page: A view of Clarke Cooke house from the basin.

ful 1977 America’s Cup defender, Ted Turner. His prize? A “gold card” for a lifetime cocktail at the Cooke House. “My family settled in Rhode Island, so I’m a swamp Yankee to begin with,” explains David Ray of his impetus to resurrect Bannister’s Wharf, which has now come full circle again as a hub of commerce and bustling activity. “It’s kind of funny how history repeats itself,” he says. “It was the center of town a couple of hundred years ago; it hasn’t moved. Architecturally, we moved a few buildings and restored some, built a few new ones. It gives you the impression of the way it looked a couple of hundred years ago, but with modern, contemporary conveniences.” Those modern conveniences include waterfront guest rooms, a 30-slip deep-water marina, more than a dozen luxury shopping destinations, a café and ice cream parlor, and the iconic eatery—Clarke Cooke House. The quintessential Newport experience, the restaurant features something for every diner and mood. “It has several levels, and there are varied things to

do,” explains Ray. “There’s upscale dining at the sky bar on the porch to the more-casual bistro, along with a sushi bar and the Boom Boom Room.” Sited underneath the now-famous Candy Store, the Boom Boom Room is Newport’s most popular dance club, playing tunes from Sinatra to the Black Eyed Peas. “Bannister’s Wharf has long been a destination for visitors to Newport,” confirms the Newport Historical Society’s Bert Lippincott. “The movement of the Clarke Cooke House building from Thames Street to its present site introduced additional fine dining, dancing, and robust nightlife to the growing commercial waterfront of shops, cafes, and yacht slips.” Indeed, some things change, yet somehow on Bannister’s Wharf, they stay the same. “It’s a wharf that several hundred years ago had big transport ships and steamers and now hosts 200-foot yachts,” adds Ray. “The Wharf, and the Clarke Cooke House in particular, adds to [Newport’s] character. It’s very much a sailor’s town.” u

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PIONEERING WELLNESS FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS, the Canyon Ranch® life-enhancement resorts and spas have served as trailblazers in the wellness industry, particularly the Lenox, Massachusetts, location. Situated on the grounds of the storied Bellefontaine Mansion, the resort offers the perfect space to energize and renew. Guests can take in the beauty of the Berkshires via the many outdoor excursions at the 120-acre estate, or retreat indoors for an array of fitness classes, botanical spa treatments, and dining options featuring gourmet cuisine crafted from locally sourced and authentic ingredients. The resort provides guests with everything necessary to incorporate wellness into their lives and, as of late, the brand has introduced the option to make this lifestyle permanent. Under the leadership of CEO Susan Docherty, the company launched Canyon Ranch Living Lenox®: the addition of 19 exquisitely designed condominiums, ranging in price from

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$1.45 to $3.5 million. The initiative provides participants with not only a home, but also a lifestyle tailored to enrich their health—world-class wellness at their doorstep, set in the idyllic, naturistic backdrop, just a three-hour drive from New York. “For so many guests who stay at our resorts, well-being becomes a lifelong mission and journey,” said Docherty. “Canyon Ranch is a lifestyle, and with the condominiums at Bellefontaine, residents have the opportunity to make a permanent connection with our incredible services.” Designed by architect Robert E. Harrison, with interiors by William Caligari, Jr., the eco-friendly residences feature open, spacious floor plans with high ceilings, custom-designed cabinetry, a washer and dryer, gas fireplaces, 24-hour onsite security, private balconies with sweeping views, and more. The best aspect, of course, is complete access to the renowned facilities and programming that have earned

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Canyon Ranch® its global following. Residents will be able to enjoy health-conscious meals prepared by top chefs, and receive advice from celebrated experts in nutrition, medicine, and exercise. They will also be able to enjoy the extensive spa and fitness facilities, which can be accessed through a climate-controlled walkway leading to the mansion without having to step a foot outdoors, and, more generally, the company of like-minded individuals. The offerings also go beyond the property, with access to local events in the Berkshires. With wellness being one of the fastest-growing markets, the company is confident the residences will be a huge success and has designated William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty agents Gladys Montgomery and Leslie Chesloff as the exclusive sales agents for the property, as well as Nikki Field as the referral agent. Montgomery noted, “Lenox is a stunning Berkshire town that exemplifies the culture, natural beauty, and wonder of the region, driving distance from both New York and Boston. Canyon Ranch embodies the spirit of the town, while providing a luxurious healthy living experience to guests and residents alike.” She added, “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to enjoy luxury living in the beautiful Berkshires while embracing a balanced, wellness-focused lifestyle.” u For more information, visit berkshiresluxuryliving.com. Gladys Montgomery can be reached at gmontgomery@williampitt.com or 413.822.0929, and Leslie Chesloff can be contacted at lchesloff@williampitt.com or 917.838.5357. 100 QUEST

This page, above to below: The rear view of the Bellefontaine Mansion; an inside look at one of the new residences, which boast open, spacious floor plans and high, architecturally detailed ceilings. Opposite page, above to below: An interior shot of one of the new condominiums, featuring walnut-paneled entry doors, hardwood floors, custom-designed cabinetry, GE Monogram kitchen appliances, a full-size, side-by-side washer and dryer, gas fireplaces in the living room and master bedroom, a private terrace with sprawling views, and more; the exterior view of the Canyon Ranch Living residences; a photo of one of the master bedrooms in the new complex.

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TORA BORA BY MATT EVERSMANN IT WAS A STRANGE evening at home in West Palm Beach the night before I left for Afghanistan. My wife and daughter were in Orlando for a volleyball tournament, which gave me a few hours alone to pack for a week-long trip to the Middle East. It would be my first foray back to the military world I left a decade before. Strangely, of all the emotions I felt, fear wasn’t one of them. Not that I am that brave or cavalier; it just wasn’t scary for some reason. I was interested in seeing the advances we had made over 10 years, anxious to see what the battlefield was like (from a safe distance, mind you), and, most importantly, eager to see how our young warriors were supporting the national mission and

advancing the fight in 2018, 17 years after the 9/11 attacks. I am an Army infantryman—or was one, anyway. Twenty years, three months, and a few days of my life were spent in the briers and brambles, mud, snow, rain, and oppressive heat, from Fort Benning, Georgia, to Thailand, from Mogadishu to Iraq, and other places too many to name. A member of one of the most visible clubs on the planet, I was surrounded by larger-than-life characters right out of central casting: Airborne Rangers, Green Berets, Navy SEALS, and the elite of the elite, the Special Mission Units, were all companions. I began my career in the Army with the storied 10th Mountain Division; Senator Bob Dole is

Matt Eversmann led an Army Ranger team in the Somalia rescue mission of downed airmen that led to the battle famously known as “Black Hawk Down.” He recently traveled to Afghanistan to shoot a new documentary. Here, he shares his impressions of the journey back to war.

This page, from above: A view from an Army Black Hawk gunship over Khost Province, Afghanistan; Matt Eversmann (left) with Army “Dustoff ” rescue crew members Sgt. First Class Jason Sigmon (middle) and Sgt. Zachery Washburn (right); Eversmann flying to Forward Operating Base Fenty in southeastern Afghanistan. Opposite page: Bagram Airfield,

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one of its more prominent alumni. Then, by a stroke of luck, I was admitted into the 75th Ranger Regiment, part of the Army’s Special Operations Command. I did some staff work at the Army’s War College, taught ROTC to some brilliant students at Johns Hopkins University, then finished my career back at the 10th Mountain. Combat is combat no matter where or who or why. It just is. Lives are put on hold, families are left behind, reality looms on the very near horizon constantly. Citizens of all ages still answer the call and agree to do this for little money yet palpable stress. They jump out of planes, dismantle bombs, move earth, build bridges, hunt really bad people, and save a lot of lives along the way. I think that was the reason I agreed to join this small crew traveling to Afghanistan: I was looking for war and the people whose job it was. At Dover Air Force I was introduced to our liaison, Senior Master Sergeant Victoria Boncz, who explained the plan for the following week and gave us some history about the base. Next to Andrews, Dover is one of the more publicly known bases, unfortunately for the saddest of reasons. For the past 17 years, it is here that the remains of the fallen arrive to a somber ceremony called the dignified transfer. Thankfully there had been no need for that ceremony lately. Enter the Memphis Mafia—the 155th Airlift Squadron, part of the Tennessee Air National Guard. They fly the massive C-17 Globemaster around the world—which, for us, meant to Ramstein, Germany, then on to Bagram, Afghanistan. As I sat in my jump seat with my feet propped on the palletized cargo that filled the center, it occurred to me that we really were on our way to war. The belly of this plane had various metal storage containers and several large machines labeled “C-IED AUGUST 2018 103

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This page, clockwise from left: Matt Eversmann at Forward Operating Base Fenty in southeastern Afghanistan; Eversmann interviewing an Air Force chaplain; videographer Steve Field (left) and producer Tim Malloy (right) accompanied Eversmann to shoot the documentary of his Afghanistan journey; combat-zone medics at operating bases like Fenty

support”: counter-improvised explosive device. We touched down almost 40 hours later at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. If you have ever been to Jackson, Wyoming, and can recall the first time you saw the majesty of the Grand Tetons, multiply it by 10 and that describes the mountains surrounding the base. Snow-capped in the distance, I had a hard time imagining that evil could lurk below such a vista. Our first stop was the Heathe N. Craig Joint Theatre Hospital. SSG Craig was an Army medic killed in action in 2006 when the hoist on a Black Hawk helicopter failed as he was recovering a wounded soldier from the battlefield. He had already retrieved one wounded solider and was on his way back with the second when the mechanical hoist failed and both soldiers were killed. He was 28. The Craig Hospital provides medical care on par with most American hospitals. In the medical evacuation cycle, a soldier wounded in action receives immediate aid administered by himself or his or her buddy. A trained combat medic assigned to the unit then gets to work stabilizing and assessing the severity of the wounds. If the medic determines the wounded needs the next level of care, he initiates a “9 Line” medevac request, with nine lines of information that the receiving medical team needs to continue care upon arrival. This report triggers a Dustoff, the designation of an airborne ambulance unit. The Dustoff team flies to the casualty, recovers the wounded, and returns to a base or outpost where trauma can be addressed. This is called Level 2 care (think the TV show M*A*S*H). If the casualty needs care beyond Level 2, an aeromedevac unit will arrive and transport the casualty to a larger hospital. In Afghanistan, the Craig Hospital is it. From there, the next stop is Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Ramstein, Germany, and then home to Walter Reed. It’s a good day when combat-zone medics are bored. Despite the scenery, the reality of Afghanistan was a violent reminder to 104 QUEST

all of us who just arrived. On Sunday, April 22, a suicide bomber blew up a voter registration office in Kabul, killing 57 people. I asked what the American soldiers were doing in the country these days and was told that the mission has transferred to the Afghan Army, which is now in front. This means that most American servicemen and women are in a supporting role to the Afghan Army; the only Americans who routinely “leave the wire” are the Special Operations Forces with their host-nation partners, and the Dustoff teams that support them. Despite the bombing an hour’s flight away in Kabul, it was almost boring on this large base. A day later we were granted the clearance to jump on a civilian-chartered helicopter bound for Jalalabad. The hour-long flight over the 13,000-foot ranges was incredible. It was not lost on me how challenging it must be for a soldier with body armor and 100 pounds of gear to move, let alone fight an enemy at 12,000 feet above sea level. The landscape is desolate and harsh. No westerner could survive in that environment. I asked the crew chief if the enemy was “in there,” pointing to the mountain range. He pointed to the starboard side and said no, the enemy was all down there: the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, al-Qaeda, and ISIS. As it stated on a plaque at the entrance to Operating Base Fenty, we were “in the shadows of Tora Bora.” The 12-foottall Texas barriers protect the perimeter from enemy small arms and rockets. The technology I saw in our anti-rocket systems made me feel a bit more secure. An hour after our arrival, a call came in and soldiers started to move purposely—not a panic, not a sprint—just purposely to preplanned positions around the airfield. The men and women from the 3rd Infantry Division’s Marne Dustoff received a 9-line medevac request from a nearby unit. An Afghan commando had stepped on an IED and was in critical condition. One leg missing, the

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second leg almost severed, and a hand almost blown off. Within minutes the rotors from two Army Black Hawks began to turn. Down the flight line two Apache gunships spun into action. Armed with a massive 30-mm chain gun and Hellfire missiles, they would provide security for the Dustoff medics as the evacuation was clearly in a hostile area. Sergeant First Class Jason Sigmon was the senior medic on the Marne Dustoff platoon. Wearing 50 pounds of equipment, he would have to evacuate the commando from one of the Black Hawks screaming over Jalalabad in broad daylight. Hovering 70 feet above the ground, SFC Sigmon was lowered by a winch exactly like the one SSG Craig used. In 1993 I slid down a rope from a Black Hawk that hovered 60 feet above the dirt. To say it was scary is an injustice to the word. Here, SFC Sigmon was lowered to get a quick briefing from the medic on the ground before managing to hoist himself and the wounded commando back to the helicopter hovering above. Within seconds, the four-ship armada headed back to OB Fenty, where the trauma team from the Army hospital on base was waiting. Effortlessly the team raced the casualty from the helipad to the OR. SFC Sigmon, still wearing all his kit, raced with them right into the operating room. The handoff complete, he checked with the other medics to make sure they knew everything he knew, gathered his gear, then returned to the flight line to prepare for the next mission. All in a day’s work. What might look like chaos is actually a dynamic execution of many specialties acting in harmony to save a life. American or Afghan, it doesn’t matter to them. They just want to save lives. As we were walking away from the clinic, there were dozens of soldiers from the other units moving to donate blood. “Everyone leaves here with a pulse,” they are fond of saying. It’s not bravado, it’s pride—and, most importantly, fact. The team managed to stabilize the wounded commando. One leg was gone, but the other leg and arm were still attached. He would head to Bagram the next day for further surgery and care. Having seen the casualty in the OR, I was shocked he even survived. It was a gruesome scene, but these young men and women made it seem so easy, so matter of fact. We followed the casualty back to Bagram and checked in

with the surgical team at Craig Hospital. Unfortunately, the second leg had to be removed due to blood loss, but he was cogent and able to talk with the surgeons who saved his life. This mission made it clear that there is a real war out there still, even if it is covered less and less in the press. The war in Afghanistan is every bit as dangerous as it was in 2001. The lead has shifted to the Afghan Army, with Americans there for support, whether at their side or, as I witnessed personally, from the rear, to ensure they will be taken care of as if they were Americans. As much as I like to kid myself that I still have some toughness in me, this trip made me realize I had forgotten that feeling where everything is boiled down to the most binary conclusion: life and death. The only things that matter to a soldier are taking care of a buddy on the left or right, finishing the mission, and getting home. We have been doing this for 17 years and these young men and women just keep doing it. Amazing is the word that comes to mind. Orwell said it best: we do sleep better at night because these young men and women stand a watch. As I was packing my bags in Afghanistan on Monday, April 30, 22-year-old U.S. Army Specialist Gabriel Conde was killed by a sniper not too far from OB Fenty. He was on a mission to support the Special Operations Forces working in that area. His dream had been to become a Green Beret. I found the war. It reminded me how ugly it is and that the reality can be shattering. But I also remembered that we need these tough Americans to stand out in front—the Sigmons and the Condes, the Bonczs and the thousands of others who have stepped up and said, “Send me.” u

This page: An Air Force flight crew walking across the tarmac at Bagram with a C-130 aircraft behind them. Inset above: Videographer Steve Field, Matt Eversmann, and producer Tim Malloy aboard an Air Force C-17 en route from Dover Air Force Base to Bagram, Afghanistan.

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NAVIGATING THE PALM BEACH MARKET B Y B R O O K E K E L LY IN THE EYES OF many who call this sunny destination home during the cooler months, there is no place quite like Palm Beach. The sun seems to always shine, and there is no shortage of fine-dining options, beaches, high-end shops, or world-renowned golf and tennis clubs. It is the Hamptons of the winter, mirroring our favorite summer destination with its exquisite and sophisticated aesthetic. And, according to the Koch Team of The Corcoran Group (comprised of Paulette Koch, her son Dana Koch, and daughter Candice Koch Postel), many are increasingly calling this South Florida enclave their permanent home, due to both the wonderful lifestyle and the tax benefits. “Tax benefits have become front and center in our conversations with buyers,” the team noted. Because Florida has no state income tax, residents of high tax states such as New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey are expediting their

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plans to move to Palm Beach and establish state residency. The Koch Team added, “The amount of money that they are saving in taxes is a huge draw to Florida, and specifically to Palm Beach.” In addition to individual homeowners, companies—from small, independent businesses to established corporations— are fleeing their northeastern base in droves to escape the costly state taxes. The arrival of these companies has brought with it a booming entrepreneurial scene and Palm Beach is rapidly seeing a younger, more vibrant presence. The Palm Beach real estate market has flourished as a result, with sales volume up over 20 percent YTD compared to 2017. The Koch Team advises those considering making a purchase to act fast. “We currently have a limited supply of inventory in our market, which makes

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this a great time for sellers to consider testing our strong market. Palm Beach is an island with a finite number of homes and condominiums. The market is on solid footing so if you identify a property you want to buy, make the commitment. If you don’t, there is a good chance that the property won’t be available when you make your decision.” The Koch Team prides itself on its ability to toe this line between Palm Beach tradition and future innovation. Between Paulette, Dana, and Candice, who have navigated the island for years, the team’s efforts truly transcend real estate. All Palm Beach natives, they are unmatched in their knowledge of every aspect of the market and have been responsible for commanding some of Palm Beach’s highest sales prices. Continually sought-after by the area’s most elite property owners, the team will provide the best of upper-echelon Palm Beach real estate, and fill you in on the ins and outs of the island. The Koch Team noted, “We feel there is no other market like Palm Beach. You get the best of all worlds here, we offer something for everybody. You can be active in the community or retain your privacy if you prefer.” u

The Koch Team—Paulette Koch, Dana Koch, and Candice Koch Postel—are top-producing real estate brokers in Palm Beach, with listings that range from waterfront estates to luxury condominiums. Photos of one of their waterfront properties at 1620 South Ocean Boulevard, $18,850,000, can be seen throughout this spread. For more information, visit corcoran.com/florida or call 561.346.8639.

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BUILD IT OR BUY IT BUILT? SITUATED ON MONTAUK’S coveted Gold Coast at 260 Old Montauk Highway is a one-of-a-kind oceanfront property, the only remaining vacant lot for sale on this special stretch of coastline. The property, which is listed with Saunders & Associates’ Edward Bruehl, is within minutes from Montauk and Amagansett, and its unique elevated topography overlooks the picture-perfect white sandy beaches between Hither Hills State Park and downtown Montauk. “For comparison’s sake,” Bruehl shared, “similar oceanfront parcels in the Westerly Hamlets often have little or no view of the crashing waves due to the land’s low elevation or proximity behind a dune. On the Gold Coast, houses are built into the hillside—most are sited over 50 feet above sea level, making for spectacular views from all floors of the house.” The most appealing aspect of the property is its unmatched value. The basic real estate spec builder model (Buy land for $1, Build for $1, and Sell for $3) proves that if you “buy a new spec house for $3, the builder makes the profit; however, if you buy land and build it yourself, you can cut out some of the spec-profit,” Bruehl explained. Listed for $9.95 million, this 1.5-acre property at 260 Old Montauk Highway is also already fully permitted, and would require only an additional estimated $6 million to build. A similar-sized lot, just four doors west at 240 Old Montauk Highway with an existing renovated home, recently sold for $23 million, implying significant potential investment returns for this property. If this property were to sell at the same price, it would result in substantial profits based on the estimated $16 million in total expenses. 108 QUEST

In addition to the value-creation, all necessary preparations for this property are complete—the building envelope has been cleared, the driveway has been created, the landscaping has been started by Marders, and a bluestone beach path has been constructed. All of which, in addition to securing all necessary permits, “give a substantial and valuable head start for building, eliminating all the guesswork, uncertainty, significant site-preparation expense and time delays,” explained Bruehl, leaving the buyer with the more enjoyable task of customizing the home. The ability to execute aesthetic decisions make custom-designed homes significantly more attractive to the homeowner. Everyone has different taste, but when a “buyer gets to take their time and really refine the house to their exact liking and with consideration as to how they live, relax, dine, and hang out, the house takes on a completely different feel,” said Bruehl. “Like buying a suit off the rack versus getting it custom tailored—there is simply no comparison.” The combination of the meticulous and quality sitework that the current owner has conducted and the ability to customize the home with the assistance of Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects make this property a truly rare offering. Bruehl strongly suggests considering this lot and the Build-It strategy. After all, where else can you find a fully permitted 1.5-acre oceanfront parcel under $10 million anywhere in the Hamptons? u For more information, please contact Edward Bruehl at EBruehl@Saunders.com or 646.752.1233.

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260 Old Montauk Highway, listed for $9.95 million, is a fully permitted and ready-to-build property on Montaukâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coveted Gold Coast. The spectacular 1.5+/- acres offers more than 100 feet of pristine ocean frontage and sweeping panoramic ocean views. Renderings by Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects await your customization and are based on the building permit for a 5,300+/- sq. ft. above grade, modern home with five bedrooms, five baths, and glass walls.

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On August 5, the Equuleus Polo Club in Watermill will host the seventh annual Hamptons Cup Polo Match presented by Cartier at 3 p.m. to benefit the Robin Hood Foundation. For more information, call 212.650.0007 or email nathalie@ngkglobal.com.

SUMMER TRUNK SHOW

UJA-Federation of New York’s Hamptons Trunk Show will take place from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. at Bridgehampton Historical Society. The must-attend event will feature designer clothing, jewelry, accessories, and home decor for sale, along with music and refreshments in an elegantly tented outdoor space. Twenty percent of proceeds will benefit UJA-Federation, which helps care for New Yorkers of all backgrounds and Jews everywhere. For more information, visit ujafedny.org.

event, which will benefit S.A.V.E. The event will feature live music, delicious food and drinks, and incredible activities such as a craft show, bounce houses, a petting zoo, pony rides, and performances by top bands. For more information, visit fundforlakegeorge.com.

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The Equuleus Polo Club in Watermill will host the seventh annual

Hamptons Cup Polo Match presented by Cartier at 3 p.m. to benefit the Robin Hood Foundation. The charitable family event will include a polo match between Team NetJets and Team Guggenheim, with top-rated polo players from around the world, including Nacho Figueras. There will also be halftime activities and a special kids’ area with pony rides, kid-sized polo mallets, and mingling with polo pros, capped by a traditional

The New York Foundation for the Arts Leadership Council Members will host an intimate tour of three artist studios on Long Island’s East End. The tour will conclude with a seated lunch at a private residence in Bridgehampton. The event will benefit NYFA’s programs for artists throughout Long Island and New York State. For more information, visit nyfa.org.

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LAKE AND LUNCH

The Hyde Collection will hold its Annual Hyde Luncheon at the Lake George Club at 11:30 a.m. to honor and celebrate Tucky Beeman and his commitment to The Hyde. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit hydecollection.org.

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The Fund for Lake George will hold its three-day Festival for the Lake

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Argentine “asado” or barbeque. For more information, call 212.650.0007 or email nathalie@ngkglobal.com or katherine@ngkglobal.com.

On September 13, the Newport International Boat Show will take place through September 16 throughout Newport’s downtown waterfront. For more information, visit newportboatshow.com.

Guild Hall will host its Annual Summer Gala at 5 p.m. in East Hampton. Each year, more than 500 people come together for this lively fête during the Hamptons social season. The evening will kick off with an exclusive preview of the August Museum exhibit, which has included exhibitions of Richard Avedon, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Motherwell. Guests are then invited to a private location to enjoy a beautiful evening of cocktails, dinner, and a live auction. The night finishes with dessert and a packed dance floor. For more information, visit guildhall.org.

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the Surf Lodge Deck. The deck was inspired by beauty and culture of Montauk and overlooks the harbor. For more information, visit thesurflodge.com.

POST SUMMER COCKTAILS

The Southampton Historical Museum will hold its Late Summer Cocktail Party to benefit the institution. The Southampton Historical Museum preserves and promotes the history and culture of Southampton by engaging diverse audiences in our shared heritage. For more information, visit southamptonhistory.org.

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On September 1, the Surf Lodge will host the final performance of its weekly summer concert series in Montauk. The performance will be delivered by FRENSHIP. For more information, visit thesurflodge.com. SUPPORTING SARATOGA

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga will hold its Annual Museum Ball, which will be catered by Glorious Food. For more information, call 518.584.0400, ext. 107.

and organizations committed to responding to the needs of children and women at risk from domestic violence, physical and mental abuse, poverty, homelessness, and human trafficking. For more information, visit michaelboltoncharities.com.

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CELEBRATING TEAMWORK

The Second Annual Millennial Pink Party will take place at the Montauk Beach House. The event, hosted by Justin Mikita and Toby and Larry Milstein, will bring together emerging Millennial leaders, entrepreneurs, and tastemakers to benefit Human Rights Campaign and Planned Parenthood. This year’s event will feature a musical performance by AYER, and pink will be the hallmark color of the day, seen throughout the decor, guest attire, and the food and beverages. For more information, visit hrc.org.

The Preservation Society of Newport will hold its black-tie Coaching Dinner Dance at The Breakers at 7 p.m. The summer fundraiser will honor the whips and their teams who have brought coaches to Newport for A Weekend of Coaching. The evening will include a reception, a seated dinner, and dancing late into the night. For more information, visit newportmansions.org.

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The Michael Bolton Charities will host its annual “An Evening Under the Stars” event in the Hamptons. This year’s gathering will be produced by Lawrence Scott Events and hosted by Victoria Moran-Furman, with Chris Wragge serving as master of ceremonies. The Michael Bolton Charities will be honoring board members Samriti and Scott Seltzer for their dedicated work toward the charities, which support initiatives

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The Surf Lodge will host the final performance of its weekly summer concert series in Montauk. The performance will be delivered by FRENSHIP, the Los Angeles-based duo of James Sunderland and Brett Hite, and will take place on

The Newport International Boat Show will take place through September 16, and will encompass 13 acres of Newport’s downtown waterfront. Exhibitors from near and far will offer a full range of new powerboats and sailboats, plus a medley of marine products, services, and accessories to enhance the nautical lifestyle. Special events and in-water boating courses are offered on all show days. Also not to be missed is the Newport For New Products program, showcasing boats and boating products making their debut in the United States. Fore more information, visit newportboatshow.com.

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The Hampton Classic Horse Show will take place in Bridgehampton through September 2. As one of the largest outdoor horse shows in the United States, and a premier destination for horse people, the Classic is a much-anticipated stop on the summer tour. Throughout the event, you will see some of the top jumper riders from around the world, coming to compete for prize money. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit hamptonclassic.com.

On August 10, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga will hold its Annual Museum Ball. For more information, call 518.584.0400, ext.107. AUGUST 2018 111

400 PARTIES ARE CELEBRATIONS of one sort or another. They mark time, talent, and lives—the past and the future. They also give form to an aspect of community that we call Society. The world is a stage, and the party the life upon it. All great parties in history are theater, portraying the Society of the place and its moment. The intent is a constant: to impress the guests (and the hosts) with the fun of it. The results are left to fate and the gods of jubilation, irony, masquerade, bacchanalia, comedy, and even tragedy. Parties serve as important moments in the history of any society, be that of an individual, family, country, or a group of people—the wedding, baptism, anniversary, birthday; the going away, the coming together; the opening of sundry splashes of glitter or the closing. The most famous party of the past half-century in America was Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, which was held in 1966 in the grand ballroom of the Plaza Hotel. The guest of honor was media heiress and publisher Kay Graham, a modern grande dame. It was a masterstroke of ballyhoo for the author 112 QUEST

and host. He was really celebrating his fantastic literary success, In Cold Blood, which was about a family from the American heartland who was brutally murdered by an itinerant couple of thugs passing through on their way to anywhere. The book’s success made the author rich, and the darling of Society as well as of Middle America. Life was his party. That is, until the irony of one’s character stepped in, and then it wasn’t. It was said of him many years later by Phyllis Cerf Wagner, a close friend and early booster of Capote’s talent, that the author never recovered from the tragedy of that story he wrote, and especially that of one of the murderers. His hubris overtook his good sense, and left him stranded on the River Styx. The great parties, like the recent and distant ones displayed within the montage of this annual Quest 400 List, are the sea from which all dramas, all laughter, and all sorrow are drawn. They were all of the things mentioned above, and they were fun. Their concepts of the community, and of its culture at the time, were about celebrating this life, and all the ships upon it. —David Patrick Columbia

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President of The Washington Post Katharine Graham with Truman Capote at his legendary Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

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Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball 1. Writer Truman Capote and guest of honor Katharine Graham, then The Washington

Post president, at the Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel in November, 1966; 2. Newlyweds Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra; 3. One of Capote’s most beloved swans, Lee Radziwill, putting on her mask for the occasion; 4. Radziwill on Capote’s arm, enjoying the party; 5. Capote receiving whispered musings from one of his glamorous coterie; 6. The ballroom at The Plaza; 7. Andy Warhol was said to be overwhelmed by the amount of celebrities there.

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Acquavella, Bill and Donna . . . . . . . . . . . Acquavella, Alex and Mollie . . . . . . . . . . Acquavella, Nick and Travis . . . . . . . . . . Adams, Cindy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Addison, Bruce and Michael Foster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adler, Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adler, Jonathan and Simon Doonan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aga Khan, Princess Yasmin . . . . . . . . . . . Ainslie, Michael and Suzanne . . . . . . . . . Albers, Ruediger and Maggie . . . . . . . . . Allen, Chris and Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen, Joe and Annette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ames, Anthony and Cetie . . . . . . . . . . . . Amling, Jeffrey and Katie . . . . . . . . . . . . Amory, Minot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amory, Julia and Minot IV . . . . . . . . . . . Anderson, Brenda and Kelley . . . . . . . . . Annan, John and Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony, Silas and Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony, Silas Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Araskog, Rand and Jessie . . . . . . . . . . . . . Armstrong, Joe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Armstrong, Mrs. Thomas (Bunty) . . . . . . Arnot, Courtney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arrouet, Paul and Dylan Lauren . . . . . . . Asen, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aston, Sherrell and Muffie Potter . . . . . . Aston, Brad and Valerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aston, Jay and Allison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Atkins, Charles and Shirley . . . . . . . . . . . Atherton, Lily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Attoe, Stephen and Pat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auchincloss, Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auletta, Ken and Binky Urban . . . . . . . . Ayres, Charlie and Sara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Azqueta, Norberto and Lian . . . . . . . . . . Azqueta, Norberto Jr. and Robin . . . . . .

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Baconovic, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bacon, Louis M. and Gabrielle . . . . . . . . Bacon, Zack and Amanda Ross . . . . . . . Bahrenburg, Genevieve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baker, George IV and Anne . . . . . . . . . . Baker, Marianna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baker, Callie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baker, Kane and Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baker, Mrs. Harold O. (Nancy) . . . . . . . . Balkin, Norman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballard, Bob and Lucinda . . . . . . . . . . . . Bancroft, Thomas and Barbara . . . . . . . Bancroft, William and Debbie . . . . . . . . . Bancroft, Townsend and Brooke . . . . . .

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Banker, Bindy and Bea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bardenheier, Joe and Camilla Bradley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barish, Keith and Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barman, John and Kelly Graham . . . . . . Bartholomay, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bass, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bass, Sid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Basso, Dennis and Michael Cominotto . . Beard, Anson and Deborah . . . . . . . . . . . Beard, Anson Jr. and Veronica Miele . . . Beard, Jamie and Veronica Swanson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beinecke, Frances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beinecke, Rick and Candace . . . . . . . . . Beirne, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bell, Joel and Marife Hernandez . . . . . . . Bell, Byrdie and Sean Fay . . . . . . . . . . . . Benedict, Daniel and Andrew Saffir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benoit, Mrs. Peter (Nellie) . . . . . . . . . . . . Benson, Harry and Gigi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berkowitz, Tim and Amy . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bernbach, John and Violaine . . . . . . . . . . Bernhard, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bewkes, Jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biddle, Christine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biggs, Mrs. Jeremy H. (Friederike) . . . . . Bilhuber, Jeffrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bishop, Brooks and Olympia Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Black, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Black, Lee and Cece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Black, Leon and Debbie . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blades, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blair, William and Deeda . . . . . . . . . . . . Blinken, Alan and Melinda . . . . . . . . . . . Blinken, Donald and Vera . . . . . . . . . . . . Bloch, Godfrey and Marge . . . . . . . . . . . Block, John and Hilary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bloomberg, Michael and Diana Taylor . Blum, Andy and Flis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boardman, Mrs. T. Dennie (Cynthia) . . . Boardman, Dixon and Arriana . . . . . . . . Boardman, Serena and John Theodoracopulos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bockman, Richard and Gale Hayman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bodini, Francesca and Jack Sherman . . . Bofferding, Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bohannon, Kathryn and Felix Schroder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bolander, Lars and Nadine Kalachnikoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bolen, Alex and Eliza Reed . . . . . . . . . . . Bombard, Buddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boren, Reid and Michelle . . . . . . . . . . . . Borynack, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bostwick, Tommy and Bree Mortimer . . Bowles, Hamish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bradfield, Geoffrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Braddock, Rick and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . Brady, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Braff, Doug and Meg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Breck, Henry and Wendy . . . . . . . . . . . . Breck, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Breck, Owen and Rhea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bregman, Mrs. Martin (Cornelia) . . . . . . Brinker, Ambassador Nancy . . . . . . . . . . Brinn, Mildred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brodsky, Dan and Esty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brodsky, Alexander and Tom . . . . . . . . . Brodsky, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brodsky, Katy and Simone Falco . . . . . . . Brokaw, Cliff and Amanda Taylor . . . . . . Brokaw, George and Alison . . . . . . . . . . . Brokaw, Tom and Meredith . . . . . . . . . . . Bronfman, Edgar Jr. and Clarissa . . . . . . Brooks, Michael and Dede . . . . . . . . . . . Brown, Cabell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brown, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brown, Matt and Marisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brown, Tina and Harry Evans . . . . . . . . . Brown, Gavin and Hope Atherton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Browne, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brownlow, Girard and Jane Baird . . . . . . Brumder, Will and Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bryan, Christina and Wilhelmus . . . . . . Buatta, Mario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Buckley, Chris and Katy Close . . . . . . . . Buffett, Jimmy and Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Buhl, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bull, Bartle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bull, Bartle Breese and Claudia . . . . . . . . Bunn, George and Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burch, Bob and Dale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burch, Tory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burden, Amanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burden, Mrs. Carter (Susan) . . . . . . . . . . Burke, Coleman and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . Burke, Robert and George Sotelo . . . . . . Burke, Mrs. Edwin (Virginia) . . . . . . . . . Burnham, Patricia and Bill Brock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burns, Brian and Eileen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burns, Richard and Cricket . . . . . . . . . . . AUGUST 2018 115

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Bronson van Wyck’s 44th Birthday “Homeric Ball” on Mykonos

1. David Ganek, Stephen Sherrill, Peter Soros, Mario Calvo-Platero, Earle Mack, Luis Fernandez, and Charles Ayres achieved an ancient Greek physique for the night; 2. Gigi and Avie Mortimer; 3. Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran was

one of the performers to wow guests at van Wyck’s bacchanalian birthday blowout, held last month in the ruins of a Greek temple; 4. Bronson van Wyck; 5. Kalliope Karella and Christine Schwarzman; 6. Alexandra Rebholz and Charles Rockefeller; 7. Paris Hilton and Clement Ragel; 8. Kristen Evans; 9. Margot Good; 10. Blaine Trump, Annette Tapert, and Emilia Fanjul en route to the fête; 11. Coley and Susan Burke; 12. Badara Ndiaye; 13. Lydia Fenet dancing on stage with singer Flo Rida; 14. Shannon Nordeman; 15. Stephen Schwarzman.

400 THE QUEST

Burns, Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burris, David and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bush, Jonathan and Jody . . . . . . . . . . . . Bush, Sharon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Butcher, Billy and Natalie . . . . . . . . . . . .

A N D R E A S WA L D S C H U E T Z ; A N N E T T E TA P E RT

Calder, Donald and Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caldwell, Jeffrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Calhoun, Robert and Liza Pulitzer . . . . . Calhoun, Benn and Molly . . . . . . . . . . . . Califano, Joseph Jr . and Hilary . . . . . . . . Callaway, David and Brenda . . . . . . . . . . Candland, Stephen A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canet, Alejandro and Charlotte Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cantor, Iris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caravaggi, Robert and Blaine . . . . . . . . . Carduner, Wendy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carney, Mike and Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carpenter, Ed and Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carson, Bill and Laurie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carter, Graydon and Anna Scott . . . . . . Cartter, Jill Warburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cashin, Dick and Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Castle, John K . and Marianne . . . . . . . . Cates, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cave, Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cave, Edward Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chambers, Anne Cox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chantecaille, Alexandra and Olivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chisolm, Hugh and Daisy Prince . . . . . . Churchill, Lady Henrietta . . . . . . . . . . . Churchill, Lady Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Churchill, Lady Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Churchill, Mrs . Winston (Luce) . . . . . . . Cicognani, Alejandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cicognani, Pietro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clark, Alfred and Querube . . . . . . . . . . . Clark, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clark, Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Close, Chuck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cohane, Heather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cohen, James and Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cohn, Charles Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colacello, Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coleman, Denis and Annabelle . . . . . . . Coleman, Denis III and Merideth . . . . . Coleman, Nicholas and Briggs . . . . . . . . Coleman, Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coleman, Payson and Kim . . . . . . . . . . . Coleman, Chase and Stephanie . . . . . . . Coleman, Reed and Lindsey . . . . . . . . . . Colhoun, Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colley, Bruce and Teresa . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Collins, Brad and Amy Fine . . . . . . . . . . . Collins, Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Columbia, David Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . Colwell, Bryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Condon, Cristina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connolly, John and Ingrid . . . . . . . . . . . Connor, Ian and Marina Rust . . . . . . . . . Connor, Sassy Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cook, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cook, Everett and Helen Blodgett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cooke, Richard and Wendy . . . . . . . . . . Cooper, Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cooper, Maria and Byron Janis . . . . . . . Corcoran, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cord, Cece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cordish, Reed and Maggie Katz . . . . . . . Corl, James and Krista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cormier, Judith and Frank Wisner . . . . . Couturier, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cox, Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coyne, Andrew and Mary Ellen . . . . . . . Cramer, Douglas S . and Hugh Bush . . . Creel, Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creel, Larry and Dana Fentress . . . . . . . Creel, Jamie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crespi, Pilar and Steve Robert . . . . . . . . Cullman, Edgar and Ellie . . . . . . . . . . . . Curry, Brownlee and Agneta . . . . . . . . . Curtin, Jack and Beth Nowers . . . . . . . . Curtis, Curt and Mimi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Curtis, Ashton and Merrill Hanley . . . . . Curtis, Remmington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cushing, Howard and Nora . . . . . . . . . . Cushing, Howard Jr and Lucia . . . . . . . .

Dahl, Arlene and Marc Rosen . . . . . . . . Damgard, Britty and John . . . . . . . . . . . Dana, Norma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dance, Andrew and Jennifer Lloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dana, Charlie and Posy . . . . . . . . . . . . . David-Weill, Michel and HĂŠlĂ¨ne . . . . . . Davidson, Marvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davidson, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davis, Christina and Richard . . . . . . . . . Davis, Henry and Belle Burden . . . . . . . Davis, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

de Borchgrave, Mrs . Arnaud (Alexandra) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . de Bourbon-Parme, Princesse Maria Pia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . de Cabrol, Milly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . de Caraman, Countess Cristina . . . . . . . de Cuevas, Elizabeth Strong . . . . . . . . . . de Ganay, Dee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . de Guardiola, Roberto and Joanne . . . . de Koning, Joep and Dixie . . . . . . . . . . . de Kwiatkowski, Lulu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . de la Renta, Mrs . Oscar (Annette) . . . . . de Montebello, Philippe and Edith . . . . de Neufville, Thomas and Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . de Neufville, Peter and Joanna . . . . . . . . de Neufville, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . de Peyster, Ashton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . de Portago, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . de Roulet, Lorinda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . de Sayve, Countess Mona . . . . . . . . . . . . de Vogel, Willem and Marion . . . . . . . . . Dean, Thomas and Caroline . . . . . . . . . . Deane, Walter L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Demsey, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Devine, Tom and Alix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Devendorf, Alfred and Bonnie . . . . . . . . deWoody, Beth Rudin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . di Bonaventura, Peter and Bridgett . . . . Diamond, Jay and Alexandra . . . . . . . . . Dick, Hilary Limbocker . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dillard, Rodney and Peggy . . . . . . . . . . . Diller, Barry and Diane von Furstenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dodge, Mrs . John (Lore) . . . . . . . . . . . . Donahue, Barry and Linda . . . . . . . . . . . Donahue, Nevan and Sarah Berner . . . . Donahue, Clay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donnell, Maureen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donnell, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donnelly, Shannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donner, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Douglas, Camille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Douglass, Robert Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dowling, Peter and Deb Willis . . . . . . . Drake, Mrs . Rod (Jacqueline) . . . . . . . . . Drexel, Nicky and Jacqueline Astor . . . . Druckenmiller, Stanley and Fiona . . . . . du Pont, Lauren and Richard . . . . . . . . . Duchin, Peter and Virginia Coleman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dudley, Lady Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duenas, Miguel and Vivian . . . . . . . . . . . Duff, Ted and Lauren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duff, Patricia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duffy, Jim and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duke, Mrs . Anthony (Luly) . . . . . . . . . . AUGUST 2018 117

Studio 54 1. Roy “Halston” Frowick, Loulou de la Falaise, Yves Saint Laurent, Nan Kempner, and Steve Rubell; 2. Andy Warhol, Diana Vreeland, and Steve Rubell celebrated Liza Minnelli’s performance in The Act at Studio 54 in 1977; 3. Bianca and Mick Jagger were regulars of the club; 4. Bianca even celebrated her 30th birthday there, making a grand entrance on a horse on May 2, 1977; 5. Studio 54 opened in 1977 at 254 West 54th Street to become one of the most famous clubs in the history of New York City, closing in 1981.

400 THE QUEST

Duke, Randolph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Durand, Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Durkes, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Durkin, Charles P ., Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dwyer, D .R . and Priscilla . . . . . . . . . . . .

Eastman, John and Jodie . . . . . . . . . . . . Eberstadt, Frederick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ecclestone, Llwyd and Diana . . . . . . . . . Edwards, Philip and Ali . . . . . . . . . . . . . Egerton, Webb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eisenhower, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eliopoulos, Peter and Maria . . . . . . . . . . Elliott, Mrs . Osborne (Inger) . . . . . . . . . Ellison, Nancy and Bill Rollnick . . . . . . . Ellwell, David and Christie . . . . . . . . . . . Elson, Ambassador Ed and Susie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Embry, Mrs . John W . (Anne) . . . . . . . . . Embry, Tally and Maggie . . . . . . . . . . . . Emmanuel, Nicholas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ercklentz, Cornelia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ertegun, Mrs . Ahmet (Mica) . . . . . . . . . Espy, Peter and Amanda . . . . . . . . . . . . .

GETT Y IMAGES

Fairchild, Mrs . John (Jill) . . . . . . . . . . . . Fairstein, Linda and Michael Goldberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fales-Hill, Susan and Aaron Hill . . . . . . Fallon, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Fanjuls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Farias, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Farkas, Andrew and Sandi . . . . . . . . . . . Farkas, Jonathan and Somers . . . . . . . . . Farrell, Billy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fernandez, Luis and Lillian Fanjul . . . . Fekkai, Frédéric and Shirin von Wulffen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feldman, Mrs . Richard (Diana) . . . . . . . Ferrare, Cristina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ferrer, Molly and Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Field, Dick and Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Field, Nikki and Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . Fine, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Finkelstein, Jimmy and Pamela Gross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Firth, Edmée and Nicholas . . . . . . . . . . . Firyal, Princess of Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . Fisher, Debbie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fisk, Averell and Kirsten . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fitzgerald, Terry and Libby . . . . . . . . . . . Flatto, Olivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Floyd, Raymond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Flusser, Alan and Marilese . . . . . . . . . . . Foley, Tom and Lesley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fomon, Bobby and Jill Fairchild . . . . . . The Forbeses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ford, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ford, Charlotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ford, Mrs . Henry II (Kate) and Frank Chopin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forsberg, Lars and Kelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forsythe, Sabrina Pray and Walter Raquet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foster, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foster, Ridgely and Letsy . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank, James and Claiborne Swanson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frelinghuysen, Anson and Emma . . . . . Frelinghuysen, George and Nonnie . . . . Frelinghuysen, Peter and Barrett . . . . . . Freund, Hugh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frist, Tommy and Julie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fuchs, Michael J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fuller, Gillian Spreckels . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Galesi, Francesco and Marina . . . . . . . . Gammill, Lee and Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gardiner, Robert “Stretch” and Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gardiner, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garrett, Mrs . Rob (Jacquie) . . . . . . . . . . Garrigues, Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gauntt, Jonathan and Samantha . . . . . . Gay, Marion and John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gaynor, Vere and Susie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geary, Jack and Dolly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geary, Ted and Olivia Tiernan . . . . . . . . Geddes, Robin and Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . Geddes, Max and Missy . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geier, Phil and Julie Weindling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georgescu, Peter and Barbara . . . . . . . . Georgiopoulos, Peter and Kara . . . . . . . Gerry, Ebby and Kitty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gerschel, Patrick and Elizabeth . . . . . . . Giard, George and Wendell . . . . . . . . . . Gilbert, Mrs . Parker (Gail) . . . . . . . . . . . Gilbertson, Mark F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gilligan, Fernanda and Adrian Jess . . . . Gilman, Kay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gilmour, David and Jill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Giordano, Mark and Sallie . . . . . . . . . . . Giuliani, Rudy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Giuliani, Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Givner, Colt and Pamela Fiori . . . . . . . . Gladstone, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glascock, Steve and Barbara . . . . . . . . . Glass, John and Martha . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Goelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goldsmith, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goodale, Jim and Toni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goodman, Chris and Julia . . . . . . . . . . . Goodrich, Jock and Buttons . . . . . . . . . . Gordon, Ellery and Marjorie Reed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goss, Jared duPont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gotbaum, Mrs . Victor (Betsy) . . . . . . . . Gould, George and Darcy . . . . . . . . . . . Grace, Jack and Sherri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graev, Larry and Lorna . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graham, Ian and Ellen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graham, Cathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grant, Harald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grassi, Temple and Ellie . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grauer, Peter and Laurie . . . . . . . . . . . . Gregorian, Vartan and Claire . . . . . . . . . Gregory, Alexis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gregory, Peter and Jamee . . . . . . . . . . . . Griscom, Nina and Leonel Piraino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grunwald, Mrs . Henry (Louise) . . . . . . . Gruss, Martin and Audrey . . . . . . . . . . . Gruss, Josh and Jessica Siebel . . . . . . . . Gruss, Shoshanna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guare, John and Adele Chatfield-Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gubelmann, Billy and Shelley . . . . . . . . Gubelmann, Jimmy and Kate . . . . . . . . . Gubelmann, Marjorie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gubelmann, Bingo, Phoebe and Tantivy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guernsey, Tony and Eve . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guerrand-Hermès, Valesca . . . . . . . . . . . Guerrini-Maraldi, Antoinette and Hans Kurtiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guest, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guest, Cornelia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guest, Freddie and Carole . . . . . . . . . . . Guest, Lisa Frederick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guettel, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gugelmann, Zani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gumprecht, Ian and Aileen . . . . . . . . . . Gund, Agnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gunther, Jack D . Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gurley, George and Hilary Heard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gustin, Andrew and Braken . . . . . . . . . . AUGUST 2018 119

Fitchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corner in Millbrook, New York 1. Connor McGill, Jeffrey Caldwell, and Georgina Schaeffer (lower row) with Christopher Spitzmiller, Isabelle Lirakis, Kevin Smith, Ben Dixon, Lauren Bathgate, Peter Neu, Nicholas Stevens, and Jack Lynch (upper row), in 2007; 2. Boyd Martin, rider extraordinaire, waving his prize check in 2013; 3. Bill Cunningham in 2007; 4. Mario Rinaldi, Fernanda Kellogg, Everett Cook, Parker Gentry, and David Hathaway in 2015; 5. Clair Glover and Terry Regan in 2017; 6. Alice and Simon Roosevelt in 2017; 7. On the grounds of Fitchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corner in 2015; 8. Fernanda Kellogg, Debbie Montgomery, Martin von Haselberg, Deban Flexner (standing), Bette Midler, and Tom Flexner; 9. Diana Niles King, Lois Mander, and Belle McIntyre in 2016; 10. Donald and Barbara Tober with Lorna and Larry Graev in 2016; 11. Kirk Henckels and his mother in 2004; 12. Molly Schaefer and Dan Slott in 2004. 120 QUEST

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Gutfreund, Mrs . John (Susan) . . . . . . . . Guthrie, Randolph and Bea . . . . . . . . . . Gutierrez, Lourdes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwathmey, Bette Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Hackett, Monte and Mayme . . . . . . . . . . Hackley, Maria and Sherlock . . . . . . . . . Haden-Guest, Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Halberstam, Julia and Ryan Harvey . . . . Hall, Curt O . “Chip” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Halstead, Clark and Hilary . . . . . . . . . . . Hamilton, Matt and Anne . . . . . . . . . . . Hamilton, Ted and Christy . . . . . . . . . . . Hamm, Mrs . William (Candy) . . . . . . . . Hampton, Mrs . Mark (Duane) . . . . . . . . Hampton, Kate and David Breithbarth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hanley, Dan and Denise . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hanley, Mrs . Lee (Allie) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hardwick, Bob and Beth . . . . . . . . . . . . Harris, Ira and Nicki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harris, Patti and Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harrison, Bill and Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harrison, Mai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harrison, Walter and Ann Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hathaway, Philips “Pete” . . . . . . . . . . . . Hawkins, Ashton and John Moore . . . . Hawks, Kitty and Joe Leiderman . . . . . . Hay, R . Couri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hayward, Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hayward, Frances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hearst, Amanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hearst, Anne and Jay McInerney . . . . . . Hearst, Patricia and Jamie Figg . . . . . . . Hearst-Shaw, Gillian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hearst-Shaw, Lydia and Chris Hardwick . . . . . . . . . . . . Heinz, Chris and Sasha Lewis . . . . . . . . Heiskell, Marian Sulzberger . . . . . . . . . . Held, Jim and Kenn Karakul . . . . . . . . . Henckels, Kirk and Fernanda Kellogg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Herman, Dorothy “Dottie” . . . . . . . . . . Herrera, Reinaldo and Carolina . . . . . . . Hess, Marlene and James Zirin . . . . . . . Hess, John and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heyman, Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hickox, Chat and Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hicks, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hidalgo, David and Mary Ann Tighe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hill, Tom and Janine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hilliard, Landon and Kiwi . . . . . . . . . . . Hilliard, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hilson, Gail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hinman, George and Emilie . . . . . . . . . Hirsch, Caroline and Andrew Fox . . . . . Hirsch, Jeffrey and Danielle . . . . . . . . . . Hitz, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hoadley, Amy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hoagland, Jim and Jane Hitchcock . . . . Hobbs, Fritz and Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hobbs, Nick and Ashley . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hogan, Michael and Margo . . . . . . . . . . Hoge, Jim and Casey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hoge, Sharon King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hoge, Warren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hormats, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Horn, Linda and Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Horn, Stoddard and Leslie . . . . . . . . . . Horvitz, Michael and Jane . . . . . . . . . . . The Houghtons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hovey, Chandler and Valerie Urry . . . . . Hovnanian, Ara and Rachel . . . . . . . . . . Howard, Pamela and Wynn Laffey . . . . Howard, Philip and Alexandra . . . . . . . Howard-Potter, Jake and Erica . . . . . . . Hoyt, Anthony S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hubbard, Bill and Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . Hufty, Page Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Husain, Fazle and Blair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hussein, Her Majesty Queen Noor . . . . Husted, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hutchins, Winston and Diane . . . . . . . . Hutton, Punch and John Hodges . . . . . Hvolbeck, Brad and Marijane . . . . . . . .

Ingham, Joy Hirshon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ireland, Bob and Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Irwin, Arthur and Kathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . Isham, Mrs . Heyward (Sheila) . . . . . . . . Isham, Chris and Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . Isham, Ralph and Ala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Isles, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ittleson, Tony and Chan . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ives, Philip and Caroline . . . . . . . . . . . . Ives, Alexander C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jagger, Bianca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James, Bob and Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

James, Tony and Aimee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janjigian, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janklow, Mort and Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . Janney, Stuart III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Javits, Eric Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennings, Mitch and Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johnson, Charles and Ann . . . . . . . . . . . Johnson, Ellie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johnson, Elizabeth “Libet” . . . . . . . . . . . Johnson, Jamie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johnson, Richard and Sessa von Richthofen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johnson, Ambassador Woody and Suzanne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jones, Peter and Leslie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jones, Mick and Ann Dexter . . . . . . . . . Jordan, Vernon and Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jordan, Jerry and Darlene . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph, Ken and Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph, Wendy and Jeffrey Ravetch . . . . Jurdem, Ann and Arnold . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kaiser, Larry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kan, Yu-Sai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kanavos, Paul and Dayssi . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaplan, Ed and Nathalie Gerschel . . . . . Kargman, Harry and Jill . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kassimir, Joel and Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaufman, Mrs . George (Mariana) . . . . . Kean, Roy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keating, Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keeler, Alexander and Gail . . . . . . . . . . Keith, Jayne Teagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keller, David and Avery . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kellogg, Charlotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kellogg, Chris and Vicki . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kelly, Ray and Veronica . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kemble, Celerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kemble, Phoebe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kempner, Tommy and Ann . . . . . . . . . . Kempner, Tom and Kitty . . . . . . . . . . . . Kennedy, Mrs . Michael (Eleanora) . . . . . Kessler, Howard and Michele . . . . . . . . . Khosrovani, Hashem and Kate . . . . . . . . Kirkpatrick, Stuart and Meg . . . . . . . . . . Kissinger, Henry and Nancy . . . . . . . . . . Kivlan, Elizabeth Ann Stribling and Rebecca Cleary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Knechtel, Tom and Kerith Davies . . . . . Kneisel, Bill and Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Koch, Dana and Jessica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Koch, David and Julia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Koch, Paulette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Koch, Bill and Bridget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kopelman, Arie and Coco . . . . . . . . . . . AUGUST 2018 121

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Nan and Tommy Kempner’s 50th Wedding Anniversary

1. Pat and Bill Buckley with Julio Mario Santo Domingo; 2. Ahmet and Mica Ertegun; 3. Louise and Henry Grunwald; 4. Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera; 5. Nan and Tommy Kempner; 6. Arianna Boardman, Pepe Fanjul, Dixon Boardman, and Samantha Boardman; 7. Deeda Blair and Anne Bass; 8. Andrés and Lauren Santo Domingo with Alejandro Santo Domingo and Eugenia Silva; 9. Joy Henderiks and Billy Norwich; 10. Betsy Bloomingdale and Bob Colacello; 11. Anne Slater, John Cahill, and Hamish Bowles; 12. Carol and Earle Mack.

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1. Annette and Oscar de la Renta; 2. Boaz Mazor and Lee Thaw, keeping dry under an umbrella; 3. Robert and Blaine

Trump; 4. Kenneth Jay Lane cutting a rug with Sally Albemarle; 5. Sam and Judy Peabody avoiding the rain; 6. Aileen Mehle and Mario Buatta; 7. Jill Cartter, Tony Hoyt, and Peter Maass; 8. “grateful pub” and Taki Theodoracopulos; 9. Nan Kempner in deep discussion with Mark Birley; 10. Helen O’Hagan beaming with David Patrick Columbia; 11. Tommy Kempner and Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman; 12. Emilia Fanjul and Grace Meigher;

13. Alex Hitz and Brooke Hayward; 14. Pauline Pitt with Hilaire O’Malley; 15. Annette Tapert and the legendary Dominick Dunne.

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AUGUST 2015 00

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Mike Todd’s Garden Party 1. Mike Todd threw a party to celebrate the anniversary of Around the World in 80 Days, renting out Madison Square Garden; 2. Approximately 18,000 guests were in attendance; 3. Todd’s wife, Elizabeth Taylor, cut an 11-foot cake; 4. Steve Allen and wife Jayne Meadows; 5. Todd (who used the whistle to cue the orchestra) with emcee George Jessel; 6. Feathered Marchers, a 45-piece band from Philadelphia’s Mummers club, was one of 24 bands and two orchestras that performed that evening.

400 THE QUEST

Kors, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Korte, Kathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kosner, Ed and Julie Baumgold . . . . . . . Kotur, Alexandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kovner, Michael and Jean Doyen de Montaillou . . . . . . . Kramer, Terry Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kravis, Henry and Marie-JosĂŠe . . . . . . . . Krieger, Stephanie and Brian Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Krusen, Will and Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . Krusen, Charlie and Kristen . . . . . . . . . . Kushner, Jared and Ivanka . . . . . . . . . . .

Lamphere, Lucy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landrigan, Ward and Judith . . . . . . . . . . Landrigan, Nico and Kimberly . . . . . . . . Langenberg, Margo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Langham, Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Langone, Ken and Elaine . . . . . . . . . . . . Lansing, Mrs . Gerrit (Sydie) . . . . . . . . . . Lansing, Sims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lansing, Gerrit and Patricia . . . . . . . . . . Lapham, Lewis and Joan . . . . . . . . . . . . Lapham, Andrew and Caroline . . . . . . . Lapham, Winston P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larner, Lionel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latham, Aaron and Leslie Stahl . . . . . . . Lauder, Jane and Kevin Warsh . . . . . . . . Lauder, Leonard and Judith . . . . . . . . . . Lauder, Ronald and Jo Carole . . . . . . . . Lauren, Ralph and Ricky . . . . . . . . . . . . Lauren, David and Lauren Bush . . . . . . Lauren, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lawrence, Jeanne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leach, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leach, Howard and Gretchen . . . . . . . . LeConey, Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leatherman, Bill and Elizabeth . . . . . . . Leeds, Thomas and Heather . . . . . . . . . . LeFrak, Denise and John Colicchio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LeFrak, Richard and Karen . . . . . . . . . . LeFrak, Francine and Richard Friedberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LeFrak, Jamie and Caroline Bierbaum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LeFrak, Harrison and Katherine . . . . . . Leidy, Bobby and Ivey Day . . . . . . . . . . . Leidy, Page and Courtney . . . . . . . . . . . . Leidy, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leone, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesesne, Cap and Briana . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Esperance, Ros and Fran . . . . . . . . . . . Leventhal, Natalie Leeds . . . . . . . . . . . .

Leviant, Jacques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leviant, Sasha and Jeanne . . . . . . . . . . . Lewis, Memrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liberman, Bobby and Barbara . . . . . . . . Lickle, Bill and Renee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liebman, Pamela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Limbocker, Derek and Nicole . . . . . . . . Linclau, Joan and Ronald . . . . . . . . . . . Lindemann, George and Frayda . . . . . . Lindemann, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lindstrom, Pia and John Carley . . . . . . . Lloyd, Ewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lloyd, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loeb, Sharon and John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Long, Gregory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Long, William Ivey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lorber, Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loring, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lott, Carola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Love, Iris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lufkin, Dan and Adrienne . . . . . . . . . . . Luter, Joe and Karin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lyden, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

MacGuire, Jamie and Michelle Coppedge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MacGuire, Peter and Becky . . . . . . . . . . MacGuire, Pierce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MacGuire, Kevin and Sally . . . . . . . . . . . Mack, Ambassador Earle and Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mackay, Rory and Francie Leidy . . . . . . MacRae, Cameron and Ann . . . . . . . . . . Maddock, Charlie and Caroline . . . . . . . . Maddock, Jay and Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddock, Locke and Lily . . . . . . . . . . . . Magrino, Susan and Jim Dunning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mahoney, Hillie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Malloy, Tim and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Mangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manice, John and Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manice, Peter and Celeste . . . . . . . . . . . Manice, Christopher and Elizabeth . . . . Mann, Mrs . William (Anna) . . . . . . . . . . Manning, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marchessini, Alexander and Genevieve Faure . . . . . . . . . . .

Mariner, Marion and Michael Heed . . . Marino, Peter and Jane Trapnell . . . . . . Marron, Donald and Catie . . . . . . . . . . . Martinez, Roman and Helena . . . . . . . . . Maschmeyer, Troy and Debby . . . . . . . . Mason, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Masson, Charles Jr . and Cristina . . . . . . Maxey, Talbott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May, Mrs . Anthony (Karen) . . . . . . . . . . Mazor, Boaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mazzola, Alison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McAndrew, Timothy and Alexis van der Mije . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McBean, Edith and Hank Lowenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McCarty, Michael and Kim . . . . . . . . . . . McCarty, Michael R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McCarthy, Brian and Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . McCloskey, Michael and Holly . . . . . . . . McCloy, John and Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . McCloy, Rush and Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . McDonough, Michael and Pandy . . . . . McFadden, Cynthia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McFadden, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McGrath, Tom and Diahn . . . . . . . . . . . McGurk, Whitney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McHenry, Barnabas and Bannie . . . . . . . McIlvane, Wendy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McKnight, Bill and Kitty . . . . . . . . . . . . McLaughlin, Barbara and Kevin . . . . . . McMakin, Leigh and Mimi . . . . . . . . . . . McMullan, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McPherson, Stephen and Tina . . . . . . . . McSweeney, Thayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McWilliams, Heidi and Tom . . . . . . . . . Meehan, Michael J . II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meier, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meiland, Lisa and Andy Martin . . . . . . . Meister, Todd and Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mejia, Alberto and Peggy . . . . . . . . . . . . Mejia, Alexander and Justine . . . . . . . . . Melhado, Mrs . Frederick (Virginia) . . . . Melwani, Anjali and Prakash . . . . . . . . . Mercer, Dabney and Tinsley . . . . . . . . . . Merck, Laddie and Dede . . . . . . . . . . . . Mettler, Mr . John W . II (Speedy) . . . . . . Meyer, Blair and Eliza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mezzacappa, Mrs . Damon (Katherine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michaels, Sam and Anita . . . . . . . . . . . . Prince Michel of Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . Michener, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Middleton, Payne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Millard, Craig and Michelle . . . . . . . . . . Millard, Peter and Polly Espy . . . . . . . . . Miller, Courtland and Gina . . . . . . . . . . Miller, Don and Muffy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUGUST 2018 125

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Save Venice, Un Ballo in Maschera 2018: Splendori dell’Oriente, at The Pierre 1. Dr. Susan Krysiewicz, who won an invitation to the Oscar de la Renta

fashion show for her geisha mask; 2. Toni Garrn and Antoniette Costa; 3. Caroline Sieber; 4. Nell Diamond; 5. Event co-chairs Lauren Santo Domingo (in an Oscar de La Renta dress and a Gigi Burris mask) and Andrés Santo Domingo; 6. Zani Gugelmann and Princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz; 7. Sofía Sanchez de Betak in Oscar de la Renta; 8. Catherine Holstein, of KHAITE.com, and Laura Vassar Brock (wearing Brock Collection); 9. Sienna Miller latches arms with a party guest; 10. Victoria Traina and Vanessa Traina.

400 THE QUEST

Miller, Leverett and Linda . . . . . . . . . . . Miller, Robert and Chantal . . . . . . . . . . . Miller, Whitney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Milliken, Mrs . Minot (Armene) . . . . . . . Miniter, Sylvester and Gillian . . . . . . . . . Mirabella, Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mirando, Felix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Missett, Joe and Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mitchell, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mohr, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moinian, Joe and Nazee . . . . . . . . . . . . . Molyneux, Juan Pablo and Pilar . . . . . . Monell, Ambrose and Lili . . . . . . . . . . . . Monell, Ned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monn, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moore, Danielle Hickox . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moore, George and Calvert . . . . . . . . . . Moore, Mrs . George (Kathie) . . . . . . . . . Moore, Peggy and Dudley . . . . . . . . . . . Morgan, Alfred and Virginia . . . . . . . . . Morgan, Sue and Harry . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morgenthau, Robert and Lucinda . . . . . Morris, Chappy and Melissa . . . . . . . . . . Morrison, Ham and Mimi van Wyck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Mortimers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mowinckel, John and Cheryl . . . . . . . . . Mowinckel, Nino and Carol . . . . . . . . . . Mulroney, The Hon . Brian and Mila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Murdoch, Rupert and Jerry Hall . . . . . . Murdock, Pamela and Stephen Stefanou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Murphy, Hebe Dowling and John . . . . . Murray, John and Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . Murray, Stephen and Muffie . . . . . . . . . . Musso, Carlos and Carolina Latour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Musso, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Musso, Lucy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myers, Steve and JoAnna . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Nederlander, Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nemy, Enid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nesbit, Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Newhouses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ney, Judy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niccolini, Julian and Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicholas, Nick and Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicklas, Brent and Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . Nievera, Mario and Travis Howe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prince Nikolaos of Greece . . . . . . . . . . . Nitze, Bill and Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nitze, Peter and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Niven, Fernanda and Mark Henderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niven, Fernanda Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niven, Eugenie and Nicholas Goodman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niven, Ellen and Tris Deery . . . . . . . . . . Niven, Jamie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nordeman, Jacques and Anne . . . . . . . . Nordeman, Eliza and Blake Davis . . . . . Nordeman, John and Kay . . . . . . . . . . . . Nordeman, Landon and Shannon . . . . . Norwich, Billy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nye, Richard and Francesca . . . . . . . . .

Ober, David G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ober, Polly Norris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O’Hagan, Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O’Malley, Hilaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Onet, Polly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orthwein, Chris and Binkie . . . . . . . . . . O’Shaughnessy, William and Nancy . . . . O’Sullivan, Ryan and Palmer . . . . . . . . . Otto, Katharina and Nathan Bernstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ourisman, Mrs . Mandell (Mary) . . . . . . Ourisman, Mrs . Florenz (Nan) . . . . . . . . Owens, Zibby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pachios, Chris and Allyson Ross . . . . . . Paduano, Daniel and Nancy . . . . . . . . . . Page, Blakely and Lindsey . . . . . . . . . . . Pahlavi, Pari-Sima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pakula, Mrs . Alan (Hannah) . . . . . . . . . . Palermo, Olivia and Johannes Huebl . . . Paley, Jeff and Valerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Palitz, Anka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pannill, Mrs . William (Kit) . . . . . . . . . . . Papachristidis, Alex and Scott Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Papageorgiou, Pavlos and Alexa Hampton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Papanicolaou, Alexandra and Edward Shaheen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Papanicolaou, Nick Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pardoe, Ted and Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Park, Patrick and Milly . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Patricof, Alan and Susan Hatkoff . . . . . Pattee, Gordon and Dailey . . . . . . . . . . . Paull, Harold and Joanne . . . . . . . . . . . . Paulson, John and Jenny . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prince Pavlos and Marie Chantal . . . . . Peabody, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pedroso, Alina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peek, Jeff and Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peebler, Mrs . Charles (Toni) . . . . . . . . . . Pell, Peter J . Jr . and Tice Burke . . . . . . . Pendergast, Patrick and Sarah . . . . . . . . Pennoyer, Peter and Katie . . . . . . . . . . . Perkin, Mrs . Richard (Leslie) . . . . . . . . . Perkin, Thorne and Tatiana . . . . . . . . . . Perry, Betsy Freund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Perry, Richard and Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Perry, Samantha and James David . . . . . Peterson, Holly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Petito, Frank and Beatrix . . . . . . . . . . . . Petroff, Di and Dr . Steven Butensky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peyrelongue, Guy and Sarah . . . . . . . . . Pfeifer, Chuck and Lisa Crosby . . . . . . . Pfeifle, Jeffrey and David Granville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pfeifler, Brian and Emilia . . . . . . . . . . . . Phillips, Sallie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Phippses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pickett, Brett and Nicole Hanley . . . . . . Pickett, John and Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pickett, John O . III and KC . . . . . . . . . . Picotte, Michael and Margi . . . . . . . . . . Pileggi, Nick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pilkington, Robert and Helen . . . . . . . . Pitt, Pauline Baker and Jerry Seay . . . . . Pittman, Robert and Veronique . . . . . . . Plimpton, Mrs . George (Sarah) . . . . . . . Plimpton, Taylor and Lizzy Eggers . . . . Pomerantz, Ernest and Marie Brenner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ponte, Stan and John Metzner . . . . . . . . Ponton, Dan and Stephane Castoriano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posen, Zac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Power, Jim and Tina Fanjul . . . . . . . . . . Price, Peter and Judy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prince, Mrs . Frederick (Diana) . . . . . . . Prounis, Kathy and Othon . . . . . . . . . . . Purcell, Tom and Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . Putnam, Bambi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pyne, John and Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pyne, John and Melinda Mettler . . . . . .

Quartucci, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quasha, Diana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUGUST 2018 127

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The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dinner Dance 1. Chan Mashek and Donald Trump at the 1986 dinner dance; 2. Kit and Bill Pannill; 3. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough; 4. Percy Steinhart and C. Z. Guest; 5. David and Julia Koch with Scott Snyder; 6. Pauline Pitt; 7. John Mashek and Hilary Geary Ross; 8. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Liza Pulitzer,

and Pepe Fanjul; 9. Lesly Smith, Bill Pitt, and Emilia Fanjul; 10. Nan Kempner, Jerry Zipkin, and EstĂŠe Lauder; 11. Jean Tailer and John Loring; 12. Martin and Audrey Gruss.

400 THE QUEST

Quick, Chris and Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quick, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quick, Tommy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quick, Tricia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quinn, Piper and Sara Groff . . . . . . . . . Quinn, Thomas Sr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Radziwill, John and Eugenie . . . . . . . . . . Radziwill, Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Radziwill, Phillip and Devon Shuster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rafferty, John and Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rafferty, Nick and Caroline Cummings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ramirez, Diane and Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ramirez, Sam Jr . and Fabiana . . . . . . . . . Rapp, Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ray, David Warren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rayner, Mrs . William (Kathy) . . . . . . . . . Raynes, Patty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reginato, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reeves, Nina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Retz, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richardson, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richter, John and Nina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rickel, Annette and John Leone . . . . . . Robertson, Alex and Alexandra . . . . . . . Robertson, Jay and Clare . . . . . . . . . . . . Robertson, Bill and Scarlett . . . . . . . . . . Robertson, Julian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robertson, Spencer and Sarah . . . . . . . . Robertson, Wyndham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robinson, Guy and Libba Stribling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Rockefellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roehm, Carolyne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow . . . . . . . . . . . . Rogers, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rohatyn, Felix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Romanoff, Princess Alexander (Mimi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roosevelt, Andrew and Jill . . . . . . . . . . . Roosevelt, Tobie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roosevelt, Teddy and Serena . . . . . . . . . Rose, Alexandra Lind and Louis . . . . . . Rose, Elihu and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rose, Marshall and Candice Bergen . . . . Rose, Tanner and Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rosen, Aby and Samantha Boardman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rosenthal, Shirley Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rosenthal, Mitch and Sarah . . . . . . . . . . Rosenwald, John and Pat . . . . . . . . . . . . Rosita, Duchess of Marlborough . . . . . . Ross, Burke and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ross, Don and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ross, Stephen and Kara . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ross, Wilbur and Hilary Geary . . . . . . . Rosselli, John and Bunny Williams Rothschild, James and Nicky Hilton . . . Rowley, Cynthia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Royce, Chuck and Deborah . . . . . . . . . . Royall, John and CĂŠliane . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rudin, William and Ophelia . . . . . . . . . . Rumbough, Mrs . Stanley (Janna) . . . . . . Rutherfurd, Guy and Daisy . . . . . . . . . . Rutherfurd, Winthrop and Mary . . . . . . Ruttenberg, Eric and Perri Peltz . . . . . . Ryan, Baird and Alexia Hamm . . . . . . . . Ryan, Allen IV and Christa Fanjul . . . . .

Sabbagh, Sana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saint-Amand, Elisabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saint-Amand, Emilia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saint-Amand, Nathan and Sarah . . . . . . Saltzman, Ellin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanchez, Jorge and Serina . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandberg, Bill and Betsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanger, Alex and Jeannette . . . . . . . . . . . Santo Domingo, Mrs . Julio (Beatrice) . . Santo Domingo, Alejandro and Lady Charlotte Wellesley . . . . . . . . Santo Domingo, AndrĂŠs and Lauren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saunders, Andrew and Colleen . . . . . . . Sawyer, Diane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scaife, Frances and Tom McCarter . . . . Scarborough, Charles and Ellen . . . . . . . Schaeffer, Marcia Meehan . . . . . . . . . . . Schaeffer, Georgina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scherer, Allan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Schiffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schlesinger, Alexandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schlossberg, Edwin and Caroline Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schorr, Burwell and Chip . . . . . . . . . . . . Schuler, John and Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schulhof, David and Lesley . . . . . . . . . . Schulhof, Jonathan and K .K . . . . . . . . . . Schwarzman, Stephen and Christine . . . Schwarzman, Teddy and Ellen Zajac . . . Scribner, Charlie and Ritchie . . . . . . . . .

Scully, Dennis and Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . Scully, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senbahar, Izak and Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . Shaw, Claude and Lara Meiland . . . . . . . Sherrill, Steve and Kitty . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shields, Mrs . Frank (Didi) . . . . . . . . . . . Shields, Jerry and Maury . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shnayerson, Gayfryd and Michael . . . . . Shuman, Fred and Stephanie . . . . . . . . . Shuman, Stan and Sydney . . . . . . . . . . . . Sidamon-Eristoff, Anne and . . . . . . . . . Constantine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Siegel, Herb and Jeanne . . . . . . . . . . . . . Siegal, Peggy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simonds, Talbott and Carter . . . . . . . . . Singer, Mortimer and Amy Sykes . . . . . . Singer, Oliver and Elizabeth Pyne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sitrick, James and Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slonem, Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Smallridge, Kelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Smith, Charlie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Smith, Mrs . Earl E .T . (Lesly) . . . . . . . . . Smith, Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Smith, Mrs . Page (Jayne) . . . . . . . . . . . . Snow, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Snow, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Snyder, Jay and Tracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Snyder, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sondes, Sharon and Geoffrey Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soper, Jared and Linda Lane . . . . . . . . . Soros, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soros, Mrs . Paul (Daisy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . South, Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spahn, Steve and Connie . . . . . . . . . . . . Spahn, Kirk and Jennifer Alden . . . . . . . Spalding, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speer, Ramsey C . and Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . Spencer, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stafford, Mimi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stark, Andrea and John . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stark, Candice and Steven . . . . . . . . . . . Steinberg, Jonathan and Maria Bartiromo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steinberg, Kathryn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steinberg, Michael and Joan . . . . . . . . . . Steinbrech, Doug and Jeff Sharp . . . . . . Steinhart, Percy III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stenbeck, Hugo and Sophie . . . . . . . . . . Stephenson, George and Shelia . . . . . . . Stern, Leonard and Allison . . . . . . . . . . . Stevenson, Charles and Alex . . . . . . . . . Stewart, Martha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stewart, Serena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stoddard, Alexandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stokes, Ben and Asia Baker . . . . . . . . . . AUGUST 2018 129

Nashvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Swan Ball 1. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and First Lady Crissy Haslam at the

Swan Ball in 2014; 2. Tonya Cumbee dancing at the 2010 Swan Ball; 3. Jennifer and Billy Frist at the 2010 Ball; 4. TJ and Betsy Wilt in 2010;

5. Late Party guests take to the dance floor in 2016. Each year, 30-to40-year-olds have a separate dinner party and join the main Ball guests at 11 p.m. for late-night dancing; 6. Jane Dudley and Lynn Wyatt in 2010; 7. Paiden and Dan Hite in 2010; 8. A table setting at the 2016 Swan Ball, designed by Jung Lee NY; 9. Chrissy Hagerty in 2010; 10. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell performed in 2014; 11. Bob Falk with daughter Vanessa Falk Linder in 2016; 12. Laura and John Chadwick in 2010; 13. Tori Wimberly gets down on the dance floor in 2010.

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Stokes, Stephanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stolley, Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stolman, Steven and Rich Wilkie . . . . . . Stover, Jamie and Ellie Berlin . . . . . . . . . Stroh, Whitney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Strong, Marianne (Mimi) . . . . . . . . . . . . Stubbs, Michael and Ronnie . . . . . . . . . . Stubgen, Patrick and Dana . . . . . . . . . . . Suarez, Raul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sullivan, John and Nonie . . . . . . . . . . . . Sullivan, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sulzberger, Arthur Jr . and Gabrielle . . . Summers, Peter and Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . Surtees, Willie and Pam . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sutton, Kelso and Jo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Svarre, Wendy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Swenson, Ed and Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Swid, Stephen and Nan . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sykes, James W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Tadini, Luigi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talese, Gay and Nan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talley, André Leon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tally, Kari and Luka Siminiati . . . . . . . . Tarr, Jeff and Patsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Taylor, Felicia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Taylor, Rhetta and Dan Marantette . . . . Taylor, Topsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Taylor, Zach and Missie . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ternes, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry, Walter and Nancy Tilghman . . . . . Teryazos, Chris and Bellinda . . . . . . . . . Theodoracopulos, Harry and Gail . . . . . Theodoracopulos, Taki and Alexandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theodoracopulos, Alexis . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas, Andrew and Kathy . . . . . . . . . . Thomas, Michael and Tamara Glenny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas, Patrick and Rachel Peters . . . . Thomas, Rich and Tamie Peters . . . . . . . Thorne, Mazie and Brink . . . . . . . . . . . . Thorne, Oakleigh and Jacqueline . . . . . . Tighe, Aaron and Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Tisches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tober, Donald and Barbara . . . . . . . . . . Tomenson, Walter and Virginia . . . . . . . Tompkins, Evelyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tower, Whitney Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Townsend, Chuck and Jill . . . . . . . . . . . . Traglio, Carlo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trafelet, Remy and Lara . . . . . . . . . . . . . Traina, Trevor and Alexis . . . . . . . . . . . Trump, Donald and Melania . . . . . . . . . Trump, Blaine and Steve Simon . . . . . . .

Tuckerman, Roger and Edith . . . . . . . . . Twombly, Alessandro and Soledad . . . . .

Ulmann, Mrs . Edward F . (Priscilla) . . . . Unterberg, Ann and Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . Uzielli, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

van Amerongen, Lewis and Diane . . . . . Van Pelt, Mary and Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . van Rensselaer, Kiliaen and Shaina . . . . . van Schaack, Gregory and Lucienne . . . van Wyck, Bronson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vanden Heuvel, William and Melinda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vanden Heuvel, Katrina . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vanderbilt, Gloria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vanderbilt, Jean Harvey . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vanderpoel, Barrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vartanian, Annabel and Andrew Jeffries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Veronis, John and Lauren . . . . . . . . . . . . Vietor, David and Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . Vittadini, Gianluigi and Adrienne . . . . . von Auersperg, Alex and Nancy . . . . . . von Bidder, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . von der Goltz, Andreas and Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . von Stade, Skiddy and Elizabeth . . . . . .

Waldin, Erik and Casey Cook . . . . . . . . Walker, Darren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Waller, Alexis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walsh, Gil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warburton, Barclay “Tim” and Julia . . Ward, Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ward, Arthur and Kristina . . . . . . . . . . . Warner, Miner H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warner, Philip and Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . Warner, Philip W . Jr . and Carolyn . . . . . Warner, Christina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warner, Patsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warner, Sandy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Waterman, Mrs . Richard (Lis) . . . . . . . . Wathne, Thorunn, Soffia, and Berge . . .

Wattleton, Faye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Webster, Joe and Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Webster, Peter and Martha . . . . . . . . . . . Weekes, Chris and Lilly Bunn . . . . . . . . Weill, Sanford and Joan . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weintraub, Ronald and Harriet . . . . . . . Weld, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wellner, Karl and Deborah Norville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wells, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wenner, Jann and Matt Nye . . . . . . . . . . Weymouth, Lally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Whitehead, Mrs . John (Cynthia) . . . . . . Whitney, Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Whitney, Mary Lou and John Hendrickson . . . . . . . . . . . . . Whitney, Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilkie, Angus and Len Morgan . . . . . . . Williams, Gene and Jackie . . . . . . . . . . . Wilmot, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilson, Kevin and Alexandra Wilkis . . . Wilson, Kendrick R . III and Ann Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilson, Jay and Stephanie . . . . . . . . . . Wintour, Anna and Shelby Bryan . . . . . . Wister, Billy and Diana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Witmer, Michel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolf, Christopher and Lise Honoré . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolfe, Mrs . Tom (Sheila) . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolff, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolff, Peter I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wood, Renee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woods, Ward Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wrightsman, Jayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wyatt, Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wyser-Pratte, Vivian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Yealland, Mrs . Daniel (Liska) . . . . . . . . . Ylvisaker, Jon and Eleanor . . . . . . . . . . . Yorke, A . Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Zacharias, Tom and Clelia . . . . . . . . . . . Zeckendorf, Arthur and Connie . . . . . . . Zeckendorf, Will and Laura . . . . . . . . . . Zenko, John and Jere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zenko, Starrett and Petter Ringbom . . . Zilkha, Bettina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zilkha, Ezra and Cecile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zinterhofer, Eric and Aerin Lauder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zuckerman, Mort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zug, James W . Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUGUST 2018 131

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In Memoriam Beinecke, William S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boynton, Ralph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bregman, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bush, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jenrette, Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Rayner, Billy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reed, Nathaniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ross, Nanette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rumbough, Stan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Carroll, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crompton, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

de Bourbon, Prince Michel . . . . . . . . . . Denison, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Desmarais, Jacqueline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dodge, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Driscoll, Sean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dudley, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . duPont, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ingalls, Barabra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Karr, Gail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaufman, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ladd, Parker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leiber, Gerson and Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mann, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melhado, Frederick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miller, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mellon, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nack, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ney, Patricia Murray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niles, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Orthwein, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Feldman, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ferrer, Joe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . French, Seth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gordon Wilson, Katharine . . . . . . . . . . .

Hamm, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harbach, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Havemeyer, Rosalind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henderiks, Joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Higdon, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 QUEST

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Peterson, Pete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prince IV, Freddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pulitzer, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Scherer, Maggy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slater, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slocum, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Smith, Mary Elizabeth â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lizâ&#x20AC;? . . . . . . . . . Spade, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sterns, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tailer, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tannen, Sheldon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ternes, Marge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tisch, Joan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Valentine, Massie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vanderpoel, Wynant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vogel, Ralph von Stade, Marjorie Jean Mueller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Wickersham, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilmers, Bob Wilson, Katharine Gordon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolfe, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

S L I M A A RO N S ; G E T T Y I M A G E S

April in Paris Ball 1. Frank Sinatra, Jeannine Levitt, and Tony Bennett at the April in Paris Ball at the Waldorf=Astoria for a glamorous evening; 2. Jacqueline Kennedy, lovely in strands of pearls and long white gloves from La Crasia; 3. The tables at the benefit were always full of interesting people, as evident in this picture, shot from the balcony by Slim Aarons in 1959, which captures a young John F. Kennedy; 4. Some couples would take advantage of the fashionable dance floor and waltz the night away in each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s embrace.

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THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY From the grandes dames of the Gilded Age to today’s upwardly mobile, “Society” continues to change with the generations.

IN 1960, Cleveland Amory published what became a best-selling book: Who Killed Society? Amory was an expert on the subject. Born in the second decade of the 20th century into a Boston Brahmin family, and a prolific writer, he penned a total of three entertaining and informative books on the mores and folkways of what was then considered “Society.” (The Proper Bostonians and The Last Resorts were the other two.) They were called Society not so much by their members, but by journalists and the hoi polloi. Amory’s history was a compendium of who was who and how they got that way, going back to the late 18th and 19th centuries, when Society in America was regarded as those “good families” of Boston and Philadelphia. These families also defined power; they were closely associated with industry and with the banks they owned and the lands they possessed. New Yorkers, to them, were still the upstarts, despite New York’s mid19th-century Knickerbocker families, beginning with Peter Stuyvesant 200 years before the English. Then, in the last quarter of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution ushered in a lot of new wealth, by which New York grew into a mecca for banking and manufacturing. Power was in transition. The Mrs. Astor—“Lina” to her friends—was descended 134 QUEST

from the early Dutch settlers who “bought” the island of Mannahatta from the natives for $24. When she married William Backhouse Astor, Jr., whose family was already third-generation real estate owners thanks to his grandfather, John Jacob Astor, Lina was marrying serious money, and he was marrying a “good” name. Lina had a naturally powerful personality. She was a strong and durable woman living in a world where women had limited opportunities for their natural ambition. Bearing a family was one. Marrying rich was another, if she could handle the price. Lina and William B. Astor—she had him drop the middle name—had five children: four daughters and a son, John Jacob Astor IV, who is remembered historically for going down on the Titanic and being the father of Vincent Astor, whose last wife was Brooke Marshall. William Astor was a second son in a world where primogeniture was practiced à la the British and the French. The eldest ran the family business and the younger had time to spare. William B. killed a lot of his time on his world-traveling yacht with friends and a coterie of lovely young women. If he wasn’t on his boat, he was up at Ferncliff, the family’s 3,000acre estate Rhinebeck. There was nothing Lina could do about the situation. She

C E C I L B E ATO N S T U D I O A R C H I V E S AT S OT H E BY ’ S

BY DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA

This page: Brooke Astor, wife to Vincent Astor, photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1956; Caroline Schermerhorn Astor and her guests (inset) at one of her Gilded Age balls in New York City, ca. 1902. Opposite page: Cleveland Amoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Who Killed Society? book cover.

This page: Caroline Astor would receive her guests before this painting of her by Carolus-Duran. Opposite page: John D. Rockefeller and his son John, Jr., in 1915; William Backhouse Astor (inset), son of John Jacob Astor, became the richest man in the United States upon his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death.

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In today’s New York, there remains a community that, while not defined as Society, nevertheless reflects the tendency to assume a position that is social yet also philanthropic. hated the yacht (claiming seasickness) and hated Ferncliff. For all we know she hated her husband, too, and vice versa. She spent part of her year in Paris, with summers in Newport, and the rest of the time in New York, where she was the Queen of Society. Her “400” list established that. The number was said to be the capacity of her ballroom—“select.” Time has revealed that was a made-up number (it was more like 369). But 400 had legs, as we have learned more than a century later. For Mrs. Astor, it was one of the first Society marketing tools. Lina Astor died in 1908 at the age of 78. During the last decade of her life, she slowly faded into deluding memory, relinquishing her position to younger women, all upstarts in her mind. None, unlike Lina Astor, was a native New Yorker: Alva Vanderbilt, Mamie Fish, and Tessie Oelrichs. They came on the social scene as the country and the city were moving into the Modern Age, the age of feminist revolution. What is notable about that social triumvirate was their newer sense of freedom and power, which they acted on openly. They built big houses for themselves—especially Vanderbilt and Oelrichs. Alva also became a very prominent supporter of the women’s suffrage movement in America, marching in protest for the right to vote. It was the beginning of what was called women’s liberation movement in the 1960s. And it changed the world, along with women’s roles. The industrial progress of the 20th century provided faster transportation (automobiles and planes), communication, and messaging (telegraph and telephones). The world was getting smaller and brighter. The next generation of Society, as well as the masses, enjoyed these conveniences, all of which led to greater women’s independence. They were radical at their time: short skirts (after centuries of to-the-floor, an almost overnight transformation to exposed leg above the knee), makeup (once

considered only acceptable on “painted ladies,” or hookers), cigarette smoking, jazz, the radio, sex, and the Roaring Twenties, and all accompanied by Prohibition. It was the beginning of a major cultural transformation, and of Café Society. Society now was defined in the public mind by the Social Register, a directory started by a newspaper columnist who was probably inspired by Lina Astor’s 400 list and Debrett’s Peerage & Baronetage. It soon became the official arbiter of who was who in Society, with names of the rich and well-connected families. The acronym WASP (for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) defined its basic limits, flaunting bigotry as it were. Nevertheless, Society was the public face of the power structure. Cleveland Amory once told me that when he was in prep school, his roommate, who was from New York, invited him to visit during school vacation. When his mother heard of it, she lamented her boy’s mixing with those “awful New Yorkers” whose only interest” was money. Amory went on to become a commentator of the social elite. By the time he wrote his book Who Killed Society?, he’d concluded that what the first Mrs. Astor had wrought was now dead and gone. But not because of money: because of publicity. He cited three sisters who grew up in Boston, where their father, Dr. Harvey Cushing, was America’s premier brain surgeon. The three young women all married twice, to men with the names Roosevelt, Whitney, Astor, Fosburgh, Mortimer, and Paley. Their mother, it was said, propelled her girls to marry well. And high. And rich. And indeed they did. They became the darlings of Society propelled by Publicity—be it the society or tabloid columns or the fashion magazines. Amory coined a new word for them (which didn’t stick): Publiciety. The success of the Cushing sisters in that area of life, suffused with tabloidal information, gave the public a good AUGUST 2018 137

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a museum. It was good for his personal life, and for artists’ legacies. Now, almost a century later, it is good for the city and the city’s culture. And there was something else in it for him. Some people give out of passion for the art form; Sybil Harrington, for example, was the Metropolitan Opera’s major patron of the ’80s and ’90s. But there are other motivations beyond passion for an art form or belief in a cause—including self-creation and image management. New York is a place where Society and its cultural institutions are hardly irrelevant. They provide a playing field for moneyed people to achieve a lasting effect and also to enhance their public profile. John D. Rockefeller did just this when, at the end of his active career, Ida M. Tarbell, a leading muckraker, exposed the history of his business practices that portrayed him as a robber baron. Mr. Rockefeller’s response to the dark cloud it brought over his reputation was not to “defend” himself, but to give—to the community. One of his first “amends” was to finance and build the Rockefeller University Hospital, which, a century later, is benefiting the whole world. Over the decades, the Rockefeller philanthropies have totaled in the billions, reaped trillions of benefits for the world, and transformed Mr. Rockefeller’s reputation in history. The world that was Society is now what we now call diverse. It can easily accommodate people whose money may be newer and who are seeking personal recognition and new connections. Arts institutions, which once relied on wealthy individuals of lofty reputations, are making a point of cultivating a much more diverse group of donors—and with few connections to previous generations of New York Society. Everyone wins. Many do it with their own reasons and to their own ends. For better or for worse, these people make the show go on, and some will even make a difference, even if coincidentally—and maybe even a big difference in the lives of many. Society today. u This page: Alva E. Belmont in 1911, who is more widely known as Alva Vanderbilt for her marriage to William Kissam Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, before divorcing him on grounds of adultery. Opposite page: Cleveland Amory pontificates on the ever-evolving definition of Society—from America’s first families to modern times—in his 1960 book, Who Killed Society?.

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old-fashioned impression of what defined a woman’s success: marrying well. The notion still remains, but those same women today would also be actively involved in some aspect of the community and culture in a way that would portray them as individuals rather than as someone’s wife or accessory. To many women, it is no longer enough to be someone’s arm candy or reputation elevator. A woman of Society today may use her position and assets to make a difference. The late Evelyn Lauder is a good example. The wife of a man who ran the cosmetics empire started by his mother and father, Evelyn was inspired by her own experience to start a foundation to fund breast cancer research for a cure. In her lifetime (Evelyn died in 2011), she and her associates raised hundreds of millions for funding research. Her achievement was immense, and the assistance to the future community was immeasurable. And her prominence as a woman exuded power and grace equal to that of any man. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Social Register’s position was changing with the times. It was now famous in the tabloids for who was “dropped” due to family scandals, such as a divorce, or a marriage outside of one’s “class.” A number of prominent social names also requested that they not be included. It was a badge of sorts. In today’s New York, there remains a community that, while not defined as Society, nevertheless reflects the tendency to assume a position that is social yet also philanthropic. It is also more diverse than ever, and continues along that path. New York is open— the center of immense and immensely varied philanthropy, greater than any other city or country in the world. Much of it is run and even created by women who a century or more ago would have been confined to their kitchens or their mansions, physically concealed almost entirely from what was “a man’s world.” What now makes up “Society” is a world of men and women engaged in some way, even if only financially, in assisting, improving, or enhancing our world, our culture—and assisting those of us in need. The personal pleasure of philanthropy is irrelevant to all but the giver. Its results, however, are the real prize for the community. If the giver is in it just to expand his or her social horizons, that’s still good for everyone else. Mr. Frick had

Born into a Boston Brahmin family, the writer Cleveland Amory penned three books on the mores and folkways of what was then considered Society.

A FAMILY IN PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTOPHER THATCHER LEACH

MY GRANDFATHER meticulously assembled his photographs into 35 albums, documenting a life of fascinating friends and travels, as seen in the moments on these pages. Described by Met Opera general manager Schuyler Chapin as “New York’s golden couple of music,” Richard Porter Leach and my grandmother, Katherine “Kay” Thatcher Leach, lived a colorful life filled with music, animals, and gardens. In the span of his career, my grandfather managed artists, including Sergei Rachmaninoff; started

finally, was founder and head of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. In Saratoga, George Balanchine stayed as a guest every July at my grandparents’ beloved River Run Farm, where artists and stable owners mingled on the terrace in the summer.

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the Aspen Music Festival; served as head of the Metropolitan Opera Guild; was director of programming at Lincoln Center; and,

This page, clockwise from top left: Ava Astaire-McKenzie, Fred Astaire, and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney during the filming of Ghost Story in Saratoga; in Seal Harbor, Maine, with George Cheston, Brooke Astor, and Peggy Cheston; George Balanchine and friends at the guest house of River Run Farm, the Leach family home in Saratoga; Kay Leach with Philadelphia Orchestra music director Eugene Ormandy and his wife, Margaret Frances Hitsch; French ballet dancer and New York City Ballet principal Tanaquil “Tanny” Le Clercq with the Leaches in Saratoga; John D. Rockefeller III and Jacqueline Kennedy at the opening night celebration of the New York Philharmonic’s 1963–64 season. Opposite page, clockwise from left: The Leaches visit Marylou and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney on Mallorca; Lill Phipps playing croquet at the Duke of Buccleuch’s in England; Sam Taylor snapped at his home in Blue Hill, Maine. Taylor, along with his wife, Suzanne, was a close friend of Richard and Kay Leach. He wrote the screenplay for Vertigo and the play Sabrina, which eventually turned into the film starring Audrey Hepburn. He also wrote The Pleasure of His Company, starring Fred Astaire, which featured a character named after Kay Leach.

This page, clockwise from bottom right: Marylou Whitney and Joe Palamountain, the fourth president of Skidmore College, at the Whitneys’ residence Cady Hill House, in Saratoga; William Francis Gibbs, Lucy de Rahm, and Kay Leach on the maiden voyage of the SS United States, which Gibbs designed; Suzanne Taylor, wife of Sabrina and Vertigo playwright Sam Taylor, in Beaulieu-sur-Mer; Marylou Whitney at the Whitneys’ Adirondacks Great Camp; the Leach family’s 1798 Federal-style River Run Farm, in Saratoga Springs, New York, which they purchased when Richard was recruited from his position as program director of Lincoln Center to launch the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC); Alfred Vanderbilt and Lee Davidson Leach at the Saratoga Race Course; Kay Jeffords at the Jeffords’ family residence in Barbados. Opposite page, clockwise from bottom left: Richard Leach in the SPAC studios with New York City Ballet dancer and Balanchine muse Karin von Aroldingen, New York

with New York Mayor Richard Wagner, Vivian Beaumont, and Blanchette and John D. Rockefeller III; Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and Solange Herter; Kay Leach on a trip to England with C. Z. Guest and Lill Phipps; Kay Leach with interior designer Vincent Fourcade at the Phipps’s home in Palm Beach; Gertie Legendre and Dougie Boocock on Fishers Island.

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races in England with the Leaches, C. Z. and Winston Guest, and Lill Phipps; President Dwight D. Eisenhower attends the groundbreaking for Lincoln Center

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OLD GUARD FAMILIES Mr. Nelson Aldrich Mr. Cleveland Amory Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Auchincloss Mr. and Mrs. John W. Auchincloss III Mrs. Lily Auchincloss Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bancroft Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Boardman Mr. Clifford Brokaw Mrs. Amanda Burden Mr. and Mrs. Carter Burden Mr. Harry C. Cushing IV Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana Mr. And Mrs. Nicholas Drexel Ambassador and Mrs. A. Biddle Duke

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Mr. and Mrs. Anthony B. Duke Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Eberstadt Mrs. Fernanda Kellogg Gilligan Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Hearst Mr. and Mrs. Amory Houghton Ambassador Francis Kellogg Mr. John Knott Mrs. Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman Mrs. Topsy Taylor McFadden Mr. and Mrs. Henry Middleton Mr. and Mrs. Minot Miliken Marchese and Marchesa Alessandro di Montezemolo Mr. and Mrs. David Mortimer Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Mortimer Mr. and Mrs. Tony Mortimer Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Peabody Mr. Harry Platt Mr. and Mrs. George Plimpton Mr. Eben Pyne Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. David Schiff Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Sherrill DIAMONDS AS BIG AS THE RITZ Mrs. Anne Bass Mrs. Joy Hirshon Briggs Ms. Elizabeth de Cuevas-Strong Mrs. Beth Rudin DeWoody Mrs. Charlotte Ford Ms. Anne Hearst Mrs. Bianca Jagger Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson Kennan Ms. Samantha Kluge Ms. Francine LeFrank Ms. Bokara Legendre Mrs. Anne Ford Scarborough Ms. Ivana Trump Ms. Nancy Whitney Ms. Mollie Wilmot MOSTEST HOSTS AND HOSTESSES Mr. and Mrs. Sid R. Bass Mr. Bill Bernhard and Mrs. C. Cahill

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Mr. and Mrs. William Buckley Mr. Henry Buhl Mrs. Anne Eisenhower and Mr. W. Flottl Mr. and Mrs. Anastassios Fondaras Mr. and Mrs. John Gutfreund Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kempner Mr. David Koch Ms. Alice Mason Mr. and Mrs. Rober Miller Mr. and Mrs. William Rayner Mr. Khalil Rizk Mr. and Mrs. Ian Shrager Sharon, Lady Sondes and Mr. G Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Robert Trump Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Zilkha THE TASTEMAKERS Mr. Ludovic Autet Mr. Glenn Bernbaum Mr. Bill Blass Ms. Diana Brooks Mr. Mario Buatta Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari Ms. Naomi Campbell Mr. and Mrs. William Chaney Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cole Mr. Madison Cox Miss Kitty D’Alessio Mr. Robert Denning Mr. Ralph Destino Mr. Sean Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Ahmet Ertegun Princess Diane von Furstenberg Mr. Albert Hadley Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hampton

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Mr. and Mrs. Reinaldo Herrera Mr. Gene David Mr. Eric Javits Mr. Jed Johnson and Mr. Alan Wanzenberg Mr. and Mrs. Barry Kieselstein-Cord Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Klein Mr. and Mrs. Arie Kopelman Mr. Kenneth Jay Lane Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lauren Mr. John Loring Mr. Boaz Mazor Ms. Mary McFadden Mr. and Mrs. Brian McNally Mr. Isaac Mizrahi Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nye Mr. Alex Papachristidis Mr. and Mrs. Peter Pennoyer

Ms. Alison Spear Ms. Olivia Watson and Ms. Leighton Candler Mrs. Jean Harvey Vanderbilt Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Forstmann Mr. Ted Forstmann Mr. David Geffen Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kravis Mr. and Mrs. Henryk de Kwiatkowski Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mosbacher Mr. Ronald Perelman and Mrs. Patricia Duff Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rudin Mr. and Mrs. Julio Mario Santo Domingo Mr. and Mrs. Herb Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Saul Steinberg Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Stern Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Taubman Mr. and Mrs. John Veronis Ms. Linda Wachner Mr. Mortimer Zuckerman LES DAMES

Mr. Campion Platt Mrs. Chesbrough Rayner Mr. Mingo del Ren Mr. and Mrs. Oscar de la Renta Ms. Carolyne Roehm Mr. Arnold Scaasi and Mr. Parker Ladd Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Tilberis Mr. George Trescher Miss Gloria Vanderbilt Mr. Stephen Weiss and Ms. Donna Karan Ms. Bunny Williams Mr. Robert Woolley Mr. Jerry Zipkin THE LAST TYCOONS M. and Mme. Michel David-Weill Mr. Barry Diller Mr. and Mrs. Pepe Fanjul

Mrs. Jan Cushing Amory Mrs. Anne Barish Mrs. Sisi Cahan Mrs. Barbara Cates Mrs. Sybilla Clark Mrs. Virginia Regan Coleman Ms. Adrienne Colgate Mrs. Janne Cummings Ms. Anne Downey Ms. Louise Duncan Ms Charlene Engelhard Ms. Nina Ford Ms. Sarah Giles Ms. Pamela Gross Mrs. Mai Hallingby Mrs. Brucie Hennessy Ms. Baby Jane Holzer Ms. Elizabeth C. Houghton Mrs. Joan Howard Ms. Julie Kammerer Mrs. Patricia Kennedy Lawford Mrs. Ann Nitze Mrs. Patricia Patterson

STERLING GENTS Mr. Peter Bacanovic Mr. Peter Beard Mr. Paul Beirne Mr. Nicholas Berggruen Mr. Marc Biron Mr. Michael Bloomberg Mr. Hamish Bowles Mr. Robbie Brown Mr. Edward Lee Cave Mr. Bob Colacello Mr. Christopher Cuomo Mr. Peter Davis Mr. Robert de Rothschild Mr. Peter Dunham Mr. Jamie Figg Mr. Averell H. Fisk Mr. John Galliher Mr. Mark Gilbertson Prince Nikolas of Greece Mr. Sam Green Mr. Pete Hathaway Mr. Rusty Holzer Mr. Chandler Hovey Mr. Philip Isles Mr. Howard Johnson IV Mr. John F. Kennedy Jr. Mr. Anthony Kiser Mr. Clifford Klenk Mr. Christopher Lawford Mr. Orin Lehman Ambassador John loed Mr. John Loring Mr. Richard Mack Messrs. William, Charles, and Stewart Manger Mr. Cristoph von MeyernHohenberg Mr. Seth Miliken Mr. Chappy Morris Mr. Chuck Pfeiffer AUGUST 2018 145

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Mr. John Punnet Mr. Harry Tower Mr. Charles Urstadt Mr. Diego del Vayo Mr. Charles Washburne Mr. Paul Wilmot CORONETS AND COUNTESSES Count and Countess Nuno Brandolini Baroness Milly de Carbrol Marchese and Marchesa Alessandro Crosini Laiatico Count Roffredo Gaetony-Lovatelli Count and Countess Demetrio GuerriniMaraldi Princess Firyal of Jordan Ali Reza Pahlavi Baron and Baroness Gottfried von Meyern-Hohenberg Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia ARTS AND LETTERS Mr. and Mrs. William Acquavella Mr. Leo Castelli Mr. Charles Cowles Mr. Dominick Dunne Mr. Richard Feigen

Mr. Brendan Gill Prince and Princess Michael of Greece Mrs. Judy Green Mr. Alexis Gregory Mr. John Guare and Adele Chatfield-Taylor Mr. Ashton Hawkins Mrs. Jane Stanton Hitchcock Mr. and Mrs. Byron Janis Mr. and Mrs. Mort Janklow Ms. Fran Leibowitz Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mailer Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Mehta Ms. Christophe de Menil Ms. Jessye Norman Ms. John Richardson Aline, Countess de Romanones Mr. John Russel and Mrs. Rosamund Bernier Mr. John Sargent Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger Mrs. Jean Stein Mr. and Mrs. Gay Talese Mr. Michael Thomas Mr. Alberto Vitale Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wolfe LES GRANDES DAMES Mrs. Vincent Astor Ambassador Anna Cox Chambers Mrs. Jan Cowles Countess Consuelo Crespi Mrs. C.Z. Guest Mrs. Kitty Carlisle Hart Mrs. Enid Haupt Mrs. Aimee de Heeran Mrs. Henry J. Heinz Mrs. Dorothy Hirshon Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Mrs. Alyne Massey Mrs. Joseph Meehan Mrs. Milton Petrie Mrs. John Barry Ryan Mrs. Anne Slater Mrs. Lawrence Copley Thaw Mrs. Joseph Thomas Mrs. John hay Whitney LES BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS Serena Boardman Mr. & Mrs. Louis Dubin

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Lucie de la Falaise Alexa and Kate Hampton Carolina & Patricia Herrera Astrid Kohl Stefan de Kwaitkowski Erin Lauder Alexandra Lind Alexandra and Marie Chantal Miller Steven Perelman Andrea Pomerantz Eliza Reed Mr. and Mrs. Steven Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rockefeller Tracee Ross Dr. Andrew Schiff Alexis Stewart Jill Swid Alexander von Furstenberg Tatiana von Furstenberg Ilyse Wilpon THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS Ms. Lauren Bacall Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bregman Mr. David and Ms. Helen Gurley Brown Miss Barabara Carroll Mr. Michael Fuchs Ms. Brooke Hayward and Mr. Peter Duchin Mr. and Mrs. Mick Hones Mr. Lionel Larner Madonna Mr. Christopher Mason Ms. Dina Merrill and Mr. Ted Hartley Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Modine Ms. Tina Nederlander Mrs. Josephine Premice Ms. Joan Rivers Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ross Mr. Bobby Short Ms. Marti Stevens THE GOLDEN COUPLES Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ainslie Mr. and Mrs. O. Kelley Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Rand Araskog

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Mr. and Mrs. Warren Avis Mr. and Mrs. Marquette de Bary Mr. and Mrs. Richard Blanchard Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bronfman Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bruckman Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Burke Mr. and Mrs. Charles Byron Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Califano Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Connor Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Creel Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cullman Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Curley Ambassador and Mrs. Thomas Enders Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fomon Mr. and Mrs. Winston Fowlkes Ambassador and Mrs. Evan Galbraith Mr. and Mrs. Francesco Galesi Mr. and Mrs. John Gates Mr. and Mrs. John Geary Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goelet Mr. and Mrs. Alan (Ace) Greenberg Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gregory Mr. and Mrs. Stephanie Groueff Ambassador and Mrs. Henry Grunwald Mr. and Mrs. Martin Gruss Mr. and Mrs. Roberto de Guardiola Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Guthrie Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallingby Dr. William and Mrs. Gale Hayman Heseltine

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Mr. and Mrs. Ara Hovnanian Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Isham Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Isham Mr. and Mrs. Deane Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wood Johnson III Mr. Richard Kaplan and Ms. Edwina Sandys Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lauder Mr. and Mrs. Richard LeFrak Mr. and Mrs. John Loeb Mr. and Mrs. Earle Mack Mr. and Mrs. David Mahoney Mr. Alexandrer Marchessini and Mme. Genevieve Faure Mr. and Mrs. Walter Maynard Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William McDonough Mr. and Mrs. Damon Mezzacappa Mr. and Mrs. Minot Miliken Dean and Mrs. Robert Morton Mr. and Mrs. James Niven Mr. Michael Rena and Mrs. Kalliope Karella Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Rockefeller Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Saint-Amand Mr. and Mrs. Carl Spielvogel Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Tisch Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trump

Mr. Anthony Haden-Guest Mr. and Mrs. James Hoge Mr. Warren Hoge Mr. Peter Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kissinger Mr. Jesse Kornbluth and Ms. A. Tapert Mr. Ed Kosner and Ms. Julie Baumgold Mr. David Lauren Dr. Richard and Mrs. Ellen Levine Mr. Patrick McMullen Mrs. Aileen Mehle Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Meigher III Mr. Michael Musto Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Newhouse Jr. Mr. Khoi Nguyen Miss Polly Onet Ms. Alexandra Penney Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pittman Mr. and Mrs. Abe Ribicoff Ms. Liz Robbins Mr. Charlie Rose Mr. and Mrs. Felix Rohayton Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Scarborough Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Schlossberg Ms. Peggy Siegel Grace, Lady Dudley, and Mr. R. Silvers Mr. Howard Stringer and Dr. Jennifer Patterson Mr. and Mrs. John Stubbs Taki and Mrs. Alexandra Theodoracopulis Mr. James Truman Ms. Barbara Walters Mr. Karl Wellner and Ms. Deborah Norville Mr. and Mrs. Jann Wenner

MEDIA AND OPINION MAKERS Mr. Joe Armstrong Dr. Daniel Baker and Mrs. Nine Griscom Mr. Andre Balcz and Ms. Katie Ford Mrs. Eleanor Lambert Berkson Mr. and Mrs. Bill Beutel Ms. Tina Brown and Mr. Harry Evans Dr. and Mrs. William Cahan Mr. and Mrs. Graydon Carter Ms. Jennet Conant and Mr. Steve kroft Mr. Carl and Mrs. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Mr. Malcom Jr., Christopher, and Robert Forbes Mr. Geordie Greig AUGUST 2018 147

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Directions to 2148 Scuttle Hole Road in Bridgehampton, NY: From the west: Take Route 27 (Montauk Hwy) through Water Mill. Turn left just past Speedway Gas Station onto Scuttle Hole Road. Continue on Scuttle Hole Road through the traffic circle. Stay on Scuttle Hole Road almost to the end. The Showhouse is on your left, #2148. There is a barn with 3 white doors just before it. From the east: Take Route 27 (Montauk Hwy) toward Bridgehampton. Turn right at the traffic light (with the monument in the middle of the Montauk Hwy) onto Sag Harbor Turnpike. Continue on Sag Harbor Turnpike until Scuttle Hole Road. Turn left onto Scuttle Hole Road. (There is a white building housing a landscape design business on the southwest corner). Proceed on Scuttle Hole Road past about five properties. The Showhouse on your right, #2148. From sag harbor: Take Sag Harbor Turnpike toward Bridgehampton. Stay on Sag Harbor Turnpike until Scuttle Hole Road. Turn right onto Scuttle Hole Road. (There is a white building housing a landscape design business on the southwest corner). Proceed on Scuttle Hole Road past about five properties. The Showhouse is on your right, #2148 For bus reservations and NYC pick-up locations: call: (800) 936-0440 or (631) 283-4600.

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THE YOUNG & THE GUEST LIST It’s not quite as old as Quest, but this column, dubbed “YGL,” has always managed to capture the energy of the younger generation partying around the globe. So let’s raise a glass to the four columnists—Jack Bryan, Andrew Black, Lizzie Brown, and Alex Travers—who expertly navigated the nightlife map over the years.

Nicky Hilton Rothschild and Olivia Palermo at New Yorkers for the Children’s Annual Spring Dance, 2013.

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Lauriston Segerson, Schuyler Roach,

Simonds at the opening of Lincoln

and Lizzie Brown at the Red Cross

Center at Hearst Plaza event, 2010.

at a Saks Fifth Avenue cocktail party, 2007.

Beach Bash in Palm Beach, 2014.

Alexandra Lind Rose at the Botanical Garden’s Winter Wonderland Ball, 2014.

Tory Miller Casey and Evan Uhlick at Greensward Circle’s I Heart Central Park event, 2011.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump at the American Museum of Natural History’s annual dance, 2013.

Thomas Matthews and Kick Kennedy at the Cinema Society’s after-party for The Great Gatsby, 2013.

Valerie and Allison Aston at a Madison Square Boys and Girls Club luncheon, 2013.

Lara Meiland-Shaw and John Royall at a birthday celebration at Delicatessen, 2008.

Byrdie Bell and Jamie Ariana Rockefeller and Matthew Claiborne Swanson Frank, Lauren Santo Domingo, Genevieve Bahrenburg, and Alexandra Fritz at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Apollo Circle Benefit, 2008.

Bucklin amid the Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show, 2014.

Korey Mallett at a Valentino fragrance launch party in New York, 2006. AUGUST 2018 155

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Valery Kaufman.

Clockwise from top left: Michael Douglas and Paul Rudd, co-stars of Ant-Man and the Wasp, at the after-party at the Water Club; Ashley Haas; DJ Timo Weiland and Mara Siegler; Cinema Society founder Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict; David Alan Basche, Alysia Reiner, and Geoffrey Fletcher at the after-party, which followed a special screening at the Museum of Modern Art.

CINEMA SOCIETY’S PREMIERE FOR ANT-MAN AND THE WASP THE CINEMA SOCIETY recently hosted a special screening for Ant-Man and the Wasp at the Museum of Modern Art. During the film, the newest chapter in the much-celebrated Marvel Cinematic Universe, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) struggles with choices he has made as both a superhero and a father. While he attempts to re-balance his personal life with his duties as Ant-Man, he is called upon by Hope van Dyne (also Wasp) and Dr. Hank Pym with a pressing mission—he, once again, must put on the AntMan suit and work alongside the Wasp to uncover secrets from

the past. The engaging comedy was directed by Peyton Reed and, in addition to Rudd, stars Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, Hannah John-Kamen, Abby Ryder Fortson, Randall Park, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Douglas. After the screening, guests, including Rudd and Douglas, made their way to the Water Club for an after-party with hors d’oeuvres and tequila drinks named Quantum Realm, Ant-idote, and Wasp’s Potion. AUGUST 2018 157

celebrating her birthday, with her mother Christie Brinkley, as well as Alexa Ray Joel and Nina Agdal; Hailey Clauson showing off the new Bellissima Rosé; Jack Brinkley-Cook and Ryan Gleason.

▲ TOASTING BELLISSIMA BAMBINI IN MONTAUK

▼ LTD LAUNCH PARTY IN BRIDGEHAMPTON

CHRISTIE BRINKLEY recently celebrated the release of her Bellissima Bambini prosecco with her close friends and family during one of the popular weekly concerts at the Surf Lodge. The Bellissima Rosé Wine, made with Pinot Grigio grapes along with hints of strawberry and grapefruit, is the newest of Brinkley’s line of organic sparkling wines. To everyone’s surprise, the lively celebration later changed themes as a surprise cake was brought out to celebrate the birthday of her daughter Sailor Brinkley-Cook. Also present for the bifurcated affair was Alexa Ray Joel, Nina Agdal, and Jack Brinkley-Cook.

THIS SUMMER, Lizzie Tisch hosted a launch party for her

Left to right: Kelly Ripa with host Lizzie Tisch, who introduced her new experimental style venture LTD, and Sarah Jessica Parker; Darcy Miller and Laura Willensky; Rachelle Hruska MacPherson and Sean MacPherson in front of some of Ashley Longshore’s notable pop art. 158 QUEST

new experimental style venture coined LTD, which focuses on exclusive designer collaborations that bring unique products to consumers, with the end goal of infusing shopping with excitement. The dinner party mirrored this goal, featuring a colorfully curated showroom that displayed the works of renowned pop artist Ashley Longshore, which were sold alongside a collection of Lizzie’s summer picks. Guests included Joseph Altuzarra, Alina Cho, Sean and Rachelle MacPherson, Amirah Kassem, Caroline Hirsch, and Darcy Miller.

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Left to right: Sailor Brinkley-Cook, who was

Clockwise from top left: Hart Denton and Sunny Soofiani showing off Jeff Leatham’s eye-catching botanical arrangements at Little Beach House Malibu; Jina and January Jones; Nina Dobrev and Ashley Madekwe; Kate Young and Dakota Johnson; in addition to crystal readings, hors d’oeuvres with specialty St-Germain cocktail pairings, and floral arrangements, the event included live musical performances from Jess Williamson.

ANNUAL MAISON ST-GERMAIN CELEBRATION IN MALIBU

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LAST MONTH, fashion stylist Kate Young transformed Lit-

tle Beach House Malibu into an enchanting Parisian oasis for the Second Annual Maison St-Germain celebration. Young’s immersive installation led guests through a whimsical journey throughout the beachfront home. The display featured mesmerizing botanical arrangements from Jeff Leatham, made up of 1,000 elderflowers—approximately the same number of elderflowers it takes to perfect a bottle of the high-end liqueur. Additionally, the installation included a beautiful roof-

top garden designed by Nine & Eye, where guests were seen crowding around for selfies and enjoying the mirrored arrangements, crystal readings, live musical performances from Jess Williamson, and hors d’oeuvres with specialty St-Germain cocktail pairings throughout the night. In attendance was a stylish crowd, including Nina Dobrev, Dakota Johnson, January Jones, Ashley Madekwe, Catt Sadler, Hart Denton, and Eric Balfour. After the event, all florals were generously donated to the Sportsmen’s Lodge for its Bastille Day celebration. u AUGUST 2018 159

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