The Right People

by Birmingham, Stephen;

  City College of New York (C.C.N.Y.), 81

  Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, 21

  Claridge’s Hotel, London, 75

  Clark, Sally, 74

  Clayton, Missouri, 125

  Clayton-Ladue towns, Missouri, 182

  Cleveland, Ohio, 125

  Clifford, Mrs. Donald K., 138–139

  Club(s), 8, 113–122; and Harvard, 80; in Philadelphia, 113–116; in San Francisco, 115–116; no-women rule, 116–117; women’s, 118–119

  Coats, James, 287

  Cobb family, Boston, 301

  Cocktail party, 213–219; and family talk, 9; regional differences in, 216–217

  Code family, San Francisco, 18

  Coffee House, the, New York, 117

  Cohn, Roy M., 192

  Coit, Henry Augustus, 50

  Colbert, Claudette, 270

  Colby Junior College, 81

  Cole, Corinne Robinson Alsop, 99–100, 101

  Cole family, 225

  Colgate family (toothpaste), 288

  College, 8; proper clubs in, 80, 82; proper sports in, 82–88

  College of the Desert, Palm Springs, 276

  College Settlement House, Rivington Street, New York, 100

  College Week: in Bermuda, 85–86; in Lauderdale, 247

  Colonial Dames of America, 103

  Colony Club, New York, 96, 103–106, 112, 118, 119, 286

  Colt family (firearms), 185

  Columbia University, 81

  Coming-out parties, 59–79; teas, 23, 63; balls, 23, 60–62, 64; best seasons for 62–63; luncheons, 63; dinner dances, 63; and the professional planner, 65–72; in Philadelphia, 69–72; in Boston, 72; in Texas, 73; in Los Angeles, 73; and changing values, 77–79

  Comstock Lode, “Silver Kings” of, 18

  Connecticut General Insurance Company, 189, 190

  Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, 190

  Connelley, Joanne, 75, 77

  Considine, Robert, 36

  Cooley family, Hartford, 184

  Coral Gables, Florida, 254–257; University of Miami at, 256

  Cornell University, 81, 82

  Cosmopolitan Club, New York, 103, 119

  Cosmos Club, Washington, 117

  Cotillion(s): New York, 60–62; Boston, 72

  Cotillion Committee, New York, 60

  Country club(s), 82–83; Jewish, 135

  Court tennis, 83, 221

  Coveleigh Club, Rye, New York, 134

  Crawford, Joan, 75, 260, 269

  “Cremation of Care, the,” Bohemian Club ritual, 116

  Crescent Sail Yacht Club, 144

  Crew (sport), 84

  Crocker, Charles, 18, 30

  Crocker, William W., 18

  Crocker family, San Francisco, 25

  Crosby, Bing, 192–193, 264, 267, 270, 271

  Curtis, Mrs. Edward, 36–37

  Cutting, Juliana, 65

  Cutting family, 288

  Dallas, Texas, 73

  Dancing class(es), 34, 67, 91

  d’Arenberg, Princess Charles (Margaret Bedford), 92

  Darien, Connecticut, 68

  Dartmouth College, 80

  Daughters of the American Revolution, 103

  Daughters of the Cincinnati Dames, 103

  Daughters of the Holland Dames, 103

  Davis, Arthur Vining, 246

  Davis, Meyer, 65, 295

  Day, Richard Ward, 56

  Day school(s), New York, 37, 38

  Daylesford, Pennsylvania, 160

  Daytona Beach, Florida, 85

  de Bretteville family, 30

  Debutante(s), 59–79; in San Francisco, 23; in Charleston, 72–73; personality changes in, 73; international, 75–76; and the Junior League, 98–99. See also Coming-out parties

  Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball, New York, 60–62

  Deerfield Academy, 42, 46, 56, 57

  De Lancey family, Westchester, 126

  Delano family, 121

  Delphine, Horace Dodge, Sr.’s yacht, 144–145

  Delta Phi (St. Elmo’s), University of Pennsylvania fraternity, 80

  Delta Psi (St. Anthony’s), University of Pennsylvania fraternity, 80

  Denver, Colorado, 26

  Depew, Chauncey M., 134

  Derby Day, Yale, 85

  de Rham, Mrs. William, 67

  Derounian, Steven B., 193–194

  Desert Crippled Children’s League, Palm Springs, 269

  Detroit, Michigan, 140, 141, 142; Institute of Arts, 146; Symphony, 146, 156; Artist’s Market, 156

  Detroit Country Club, Grosse Pointe Farms, 144, 152

  Detroit Lions (football team), 153–154

  Devens, Lucy Aldrich, 33

  Devon, Pennsylvania, 160; Horse Show, 165

  Dewey, Melville Louis Kossuth, 233–234, 235

  DeWitt, J. Doyle, 190

  de Young, Meichel H., 19, 30–31

  de Young family, San Francisco, 18, 56

  Diamond Sculls, England, 84

  Dichter, Dr. Ernest, 217

  Dietrich, Marlene, 273

  Dinkelspiel family, San Francisco, 18

  Dior, Christian, 251

  Disney, Sharon, 73

  Disney, Walt, 73, 192

  Divine, Father, 174

  Divorce, 69, 92–95

  Dobbs Ferry School, 76

  Dodge, Mrs. Horace, Sr., 144

  Dodge family, New York, 35

  Dog-breeding, 25, 85

  Dorrance family, 223

  Dove, Billie, 259

  Downs, Mrs. Thomas McKean, see Bowen, Catherine Drinker Downtown Operators’ Association, San Francisco, 23

  Dress-up Group, San Francisco, 23

  Drexel, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Childs, 176

  Drexel family, Philadelphia, 94

  Drinker family, Philadelphia, 10

  Drury, Samuel S., Rector of St. Paul’s School, 48–49, 226–227

  Duchin, Peter, 65

  Dudley, Joseph, 286

  Dudley, Thomas, 286

  Dudley family, 285–286

  Duke, Angier Biddle, 295

  Duke, Doris, 13

  Duke family, 132

  Duncan, Isadora, 248

  du Pont, Ethel, 71

  du Pont family, 46, 225, 288

  Dykema, Mrs. Raymond, 150–151

  Earl, James, 151

  Eaton, Peggy, 202

  Eckert, Mrs. Samuel, 159, 167

  Eden Roc Hotel, Miami Beach, 253

  Edgartown, Massachusetts, 224, 247

  Eisenhower, Dwight David, 116, 190, 261, 272

  Elbow-Beach Club, Bermuda, 85

  Eldorado Country Club, Palm Springs, 261, 269, 272

  Elite Directory, 129

  Endicott family, Boston, 301

  Endowment(s), prep school, 52, 55

  Entertaining, 14; in San Francisco, 20–21; in turn-of-the-century Westchester, 130–132; in Grosse Pointe, 143, 145, 148, 153–154; in Main Line Philadelphia; 176–177; in Palm Springs, 274

  Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, 168, 176

  Episcopal High School, Virginia, 45

  Epsom School, England, 52

  Ernest, headwaiter in St. Francis Hotel’s Mural Room, 24–25

  Escobosa, Hector, 19

  Establishment, American, 58, 180. See also Social Establishment

  Ethel Walker School, 76

  Eton, 45, 52, 53

  Etting, Emlen, 166

  Everglades Club, Palm Beach, 243

  Exeter Academy, 45, 47, 57, 77

  Fair family, 18

  Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 36

  Fairless, Benjamin, 259, 266, 276

  Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, 18

  Farrell, Charles, 273

  Fashion, 20; in Real Society, 7; and the Main Liner, 168–169; in Hartford, 191

  Fay family, San Francisco, 18

  Faye, Alice, 260

  Ferrer, Mel, 36

  Fetterman, Mrs. Gordon, 28

  Field family, Westches
ter, 130

  Field hockey, 87

  Fifth Avenue, 8, 13

  Firestone, Harvey, 295

  Firestone, Leonard, 259, 277

  Firestone family, 225

  First World War, 40, 118–119, 183

  Fish family, 13, 35

  Fish House, Philadelphia, 97n., 113–115

  Fisher, Eddie, 260

  Fisher, Sidney, quoted on Newport, 221–222

  Fishers Island, New York, 224–225; Yacht Club, 225

  Fishing, 85

  Fiske family, Boston, 10

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 90, 200, 218–219

  Flagler, Henry Morrison, 241–245, 248, 254

  Fleishhacker family, San Francisco, 18

  Flood, Elizabeth, 64

  Flood, James, 27, 64

  Flood family, San Francisco, 18, 27

  Florida, 241–257; West Coast, 245–246; recession (1925) and hurricane (1926), 255–256

  Florida East Coast Railroad, 242

  Fly Club, Harvard, 80

  Folger family, San Francisco, 18, 27

  Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, 253

  Football, college, 85–87. See also Touch football

  Foote, Mrs. Archbold (Lydia Archbold), 289

  Forbes family, Boston, 46

  Ford, Anne, 147–148

  Ford, Benson, 145, 147

  Ford, Mrs. Benson, 156

  Ford, Mrs. Edsel (Eleanor), 145, 146–147

  Ford, Emory, 146

  Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Clifford, 146, 148, 149

  Ford, Frederick Sloane, 146

  Ford, Henry, 143, 145, 147, 148

  Ford, Henry II, 64, 144, 145, 147–148

  Ford, John B., 146

  Ford, Walter Buhl, 146, 151

  Ford, Mrs. Walter B. (“Dodie”), 145, 146, 151

  Ford, Whitey, 154

  Ford, William, 145, 147, 259

  Ford family, 10, 49, 58, 145, 281

  Ford Foundation, 148

  Foreign Policy Association, Hartford, 189

  Fort Lauderdale, 85, 246–248; College Week in, 247

  Fortune hunters, 92

  “Four Hundred,” 40, 99, 233

  Fox hunting, 85

  “Fox-Hunting Set,” Washington, D.C., 207

  Foxcroft School, 7, 76

  Francisca Club, San Francisco, 103

  Franklin, Benjamin, 162

  Franklin Inn Club, Philadelphia, 117

  Fraternity, 121; at University of Pennsylvania, 80

  Frazier, Brenda Diana Duff, 75, 77

  Frederick, King of Denmark, 28

  Frelinghuysen family, 288

  French family, New York, 10

  Fried, Mrs. Irving, 174

  Frothingham family, Boston, 225

  Fuller family, Boston, 226

  Garden(s): maintenance of, 13–14; in Philadelphia, 167; at Hammersmith Farm, 292–293

  Gardners (club), Philadelphia, 167

  Gardner family, Boston, 10, 13

  Gate-crashers, 68–69

  Gates, John (“Bet-a-Million”), 232n.

  Gay Nineties, 40

  Gaylord, Michigan, 152

  Genealogy, 9; of Auchincloss family, 285–286

  General Motors, 144

  George Washington University, 81

  Georgetown University, 81

  Germantown, Pennsylvania, 163

  Ghirardelli family, San Francisco, 18

  Gigolo, see Kept Man

  Gimble family, New York, 135

  Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, 165

  Goelet family, Philadelphia, 13, 233, 282

  Goetz, William, 270

  “Gold Coast,” Long Island, 224

  Goldberg, Arthur, 208

  Goldwater, Senator Barry, 16, 192–194, 196

  Golf, 82, 83, 167; in Palm Springs, 260–261

  Goodsell sisters, 287

  Goodwin family, Hartford, 184

  Gore, Louise, 192, 207

  Gore, Senator T. P., 284

  Gould, Jay, 128

  Gould family, 13, 35, 132, 233

  Governess(es), 16, 33

  Grace, Princess of Monaco, see Kelly, Grace

  Gracemere (yacht), 130

  Granville, Bonita, 270

  Gray Lodge, Hartford, 189

  Great Depression, 13, 215

  Grebe, A. R., 225

  Green, Mrs. H. Stuart, 130

  Green Haven, Westchester, 135

  Greenwood, Patricia Procter, 96–97

  Greenwood, Thomas, 96–97

  Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 140–152; and automobile industry, 143–144; and the Fords, 145–148; “image” problems in, 149–152; “in-breeding” in, 154–155

  Grosse Pointe City, 140, 141

  Grosse Pointe Club, 152

  Grosse Pointe Farms, 140, 141

  Grosse Pointe Park, 140, 141; Windmill Pointe section, 149

  Grosse Pointe Shores, 140, 141

  Grosse Pointe War Memorial Center, 144, 147

  Grosse Pointe Woods, 140–142

  Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, 152

  Grosvenor Ball, New York, 61–62

  Grosvenor family, 288

  Grosvenor Neighborhood House, New York, 61–62

  Groton, 42, 44, 46, 47, 49, 54, 77, 226, 291, 300

  Groton-St. Mark’s Dance, 67

  Guggenheim, Polly (Mrs. John Logan), 196–197

  Gulph Mills Golf Club, Philadelphia, 174

  Haase family, San Francisco, 18

  Halcyon (boat) club, St. Paul’s, 44

  Hale, Prentis Cobb, 19

  Hale Brothers, San Francisco department store, 19

  Hamilton, Alexander, 36

  Hamilton, Alexander II, 130

  Hamilton, Major General Pierpont Morgan, 36

  Hamilton family; New York, 36

  Hammersmith Farm, Newport, 282, 288, 290, 295, 298; during World War II, 292–295; as tourist site, 297; Windmill guest house at, 297–298

  Harjes, Alice Whitehouse, 214–215, 220

  Harmonie Club, New York, 117

  Harriman, Averell, 36, 100, 121

  Harriman, E. H., 100

  Harriman, Mrs. J. Borden, 118

  Harriman, Mary, 100, 110–111

  Harriman family, 13, 35, 233

  Harris, Phil, 270

  Harrison, New York, 125

  Harrow, 45, 52, 53

  Hartford, Connecticut: Golf Club, 185, 189, 190; Public High School, 187; Art School, 189; Symphony and Opera Association, 189. See also West Hartford

  Hartford Club, 185

  Harvard Club of New York, 118; its popovers, 120

  Harvard College, 35, 50, 80–81

  Haverford, Pennsylvania, 160, 164

  Haverford College, 168

  Hay Harbor Club, 225

  Headdress Ball, Philadelphia, 71

  Headmaster, prep school, 47–49, 55–56

  Healy, S. A., 267

  Hellman family, San Francisco, 18

  Hemingway, Ernest, 90

  Henderson, Nathalie, see Swan, Mrs. Joseph R.

  Henderson family, San Francisco, 18

  Hendricks family, New York, 117

  Heple, Laurena, 259

  Higginson family, Boston, 301

  Hill School, Pennsylvania, 44, 77

  Hillsborough township, California, 25

  Hilton, Conrad, 259, 277

  Hinton, Carmelita, 51

  Hobart College, 81

  Hobe Sound, Florida, 248–249

  Hochschild, Harold K., 238

  Hockey, 87. See also Field hockey

  Hoffman, Paul, 259, 277

  Holliday, Benjamin, 128

  Hollywood, California, 217

  Homans, Mrs. Robert (Abigail Adams), 32

  Homans, Robert, Jr., 32

  Homans, Mrs. Robert, Jr. (Mary Aldrich), 32

  Hooker, Thomas, 182

  Hoover, Herbert, 261

  Hopkins, Mark, 18

  Horses, 25; and Philadelphia’s Main Line, 166–167

  Horsemanship
, 85

  Hotchkiss, Maria, 46

  Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut, 34, 42, 44, 46, 47, 49, 50, 54, 56, 77; Ford Library, 58

  Hotel Pierre, New York, 67

  Howar, Mrs. Barbara, 204

  Howard, Helen Livingstone, 144, 152, 153

  Howard family, 94

  Howe, Thomas Carr, 17

  Howe, William, 137

  Howland family, Boston, 301

  Hudson Motor Company, 144

  Humphrey, Hubert, 202

  Hunt Club, Grosse Pointe, 152

  Huntington, Collis P., 18

  Hutchinson, Mrs. John M. S., 140

  Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, 261

  I. Magnin & Company, 19

  Indians, Palm Springs, 274–275

  Ingersoll, Charles E., 15

  Ingersoll, Mr. and Mrs. John, 20, 69, 216

  Ingersoll family, Philadelphia, 10, 15, 49, 94, 162

  Ingraham family, 288

  Ingrid, Queen of Denmark, 28–29

  Institute for Language Disorders, Evanston, Illinois, 107

  Interior decorators, 21; in Palm Springs, 268

  Irvington, New York, 123

  Iselin family, 13

  Ivy League, 42, 77; and the Social Register, 81–82

  J. E. Caldwell & Company, Philadelphia, 69

  Jennings, Oliver B., 287

  Jennings family, 288

  “Jet Set,” 249

  Jews, 194; in San Francisco Society, 18–19; and prepschool quotas, 47, 55; and coming-out party lists, 67; in the Junior League, 107; in Westchester, 134–135, 138, 139; and Grosse Pointe, 149; and Main Line Society, 165, 174–175; and Adirondack resorts, 232, 234, 235; in Palm Beach, 246, 272, 273

  J. Gibson McIlvain Company, 180

  Johnson, Mrs. Bradley, 109–110

  Johnson, Luci (Mrs. Pat Nugent), 6, 290

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 261

  Johnson, Mrs. Lyndon B. (Lady Bird), 198

  Johns Hopkins University, 81

  Jones, Allan, 260

  Joy, Mrs. Henry B., 143, 144

  Joy family, Detroit, 142

  Junior Assemblies, 62. See also Assemblies

  Junior Bal Masque, Philadelphia, 71

  Junior dance, 3, 67

  Junior League, 98–112, 119; “Image” problems, 98–99, 110; in New York, 100–101, 108; selectivity of, 102–103, 106–107; stated raison d’être, 104; “in the provinces,” 105; palpable contributions of, 107–108; in Hartford, 189–190

  Junior League Ball, New York, 62

  Junior League Follies, 101

  Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Houses, see Junior League

  Junior League Puppeteers, 111

  Kanzler, Mrs. Robert, 145

  Kaplan, Boris, 74

  Katonah, New York, 125

  Kaye, Danny, 270

  Kelly, Grace (Princess Grace of Monaco), 6, 84

  Kelly, John Brendan, 84

  Kemper, John, headmaster of Andover Academy, 56

  Kennedy, Jacqueline (Jacqueline Lee Bouvier), 75, 284, 290, 294, 295–296, 298; position in Auchincloss clan, 296, 297, 300

  Kennedy, John F., 54, 74, 194, 261; and the New Frontier Set, 200; and the Auchinclosses, 294–298 passim