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by Birmingham, Stephen;


  St. Paul’s School, 7, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 52, 54, 77, 226; “Cricket Day,” 49; endowment, 52; as route to Yale, 80; sports at, 84

  Saks Fifth Avenue, 20

  Saltonstall, William G. (“Bill Salty”), 56

  Saltonstall family, 4, 10, 286, 288, 297

  Saltonstall of Huntwicke, Sir Richard, 286

  San Francisco, 17–32, 66; self-indulgence in, 19–20; home entertaining in, 21; concern for Class, 22; social fatalities in, 23–24; social leadership in, 26–28; Maritime Museum, 29; Junior League, 101, 105; Peninsula, 182

  San Francisco Chronicle, 31

  San Marino, California, 73

  Santa Clara Lumber Company, 231

  Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 74, 137, 138

  Saranac, New York, 232

  Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses, 232

  Saratoga Springs, 232

  Scarsdale, New York, 125, 135–136

  Schiff, Jacob, 47

  Schiff, Morti, 47

  Schine, G. David, 246

  Schine, J. Meyer, 246

  Schlotman, Mrs. Joseph (Stella), 144, 145, 152, 154

  Schmidt, George, 259

  School, 8, 34, 35. See also Boarding school; College; Prep school

  Schwab family, New York, 36, 130

  Schwabacher family, San Francisco, 18

  Scott, Mrs. Harold, 130

  Scranton, William W., 54

  Scroll and Key, Yale senior society, 121, 300

  Sears family, Boston, 301

  Seattle, Washington, 26

  Second World War, 51, 55, 64, 86, 247, 300; servant shortage during, 15, 292–294

  Sedgwick family, Boston, 10

  Seligman, Joseph, 232

  Sert Room, 62

  Servants, 14–17, 194–195, 225; World War II shortage of, 15

  “Seven sisters,” women’s colleges, 81. See also name of specific college

  Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 36

  Sewickley, Pennsylvania, 125, 182

  Shaker Heights, Ohio, 125, 182

  Shattuck (boat) club, St. Paul’s School, 44

  Shaw, Carolyn Hagner, 200, 208

  Shepard, Mrs. Finley J., 128

  Sheraton Plaza Hotel, Boston, 72

  Sherman, Roger, 132

  Sherman family, New York, 133

  Shipley School, Philadelphia, 168

  Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 200

  Shriver, Sargent, 200

  Sicard, Pierre, 271

  Sigourney, Charles, 183

  Sigoumey, Mrs. Charles (Lydia Huntley), 183

  Sill, Frederick H., 46

  Sinatra, Frank, 272

  Singer, I. M., 248

  Singer, Paris, 248

  Skiing, 85, 95

  Skull and Bones, Yale senior society, 121

  Slater, Denniston, 154

  Sloan, Maria (Mrs. Edgar Stirling Auchincloss), 287

  Sloan family, New York, 35, 288

  Sloane, Alfred P., 146

  Smedberg family, 287, 288

  Smedley, Edward, 137

  Smith, Stephen E., 236

  Smith College, 7, 81, 87; Alumnae Association, 189

  Smoke Tree Ranch, Palm Springs, 272–273

  Social climbers, 5, 9, 11; in San Francisco, 21, 24, 25; and coming-out parties, 66–67; and the Junior League, 106; and Grosse Pointe, 150; and Palm Beach, 245

  Social club(s), see Club(s)

  Social Establishment, 11, 52, 80; in San Francisco, 20; and the trailer park, 270

  Social Register, 65, 66, 95, 129, 175, 225; and New York, 6–7, 35; and San Francisco, 18, 81, 116; and college’s social standing, 81–82; and the Junior League, 104; and Detroit, 155; and Philadelphia, 159, 164; Auchincloss family in, 288

  Social secretaries (professional party-planners), 65–72; their lists, 67–69; imported by Westerners, 73

  Society: Real, defined, 3; American, 5; English influence upon, 45; Jewish/Gentile, 67; in Washington, 195–196; of Palm Springs, 259, 272, 276; and the Auchincloss family, 281–301; values of, 301–302

  Society for the Preservation of Cultural Relations Between the East and West Banks of the Schuylkill, 179

  Society Hill, Philadelphia, 163

  Somerset Club, Boston, 32, 117

  Sororities, 121

  South Dakota School of Mines, 82

  Southampton, Long Island, 224

  Southeastern University, 82

  Southern Pacific Railroad, 18

  Southwestern University, 82

  Spee Club, Harvard, 80, 82

  Spinsters, post-debutante club, San Francisco, 23

  Sports: college, 82; in Grosse Pointe, 152; in Philadelphia, 167, 180. See also name of specific sport

  Spreckels, Adolph B., 22, 29, 30–31

  Spreckels, Mrs. Adolph B. (Alma Emma Charlotte Corday le Normand de Bretteville), 28–31; her Salvage Shop, 29

  Spreckels family, San Francisco, 18

  Squash (sport), 83

  Stags, 65–68. See also Bachelors

  Stanford, Leland, 18

  Stanford University, 81

  Stanton, William, 289–290

  State in Schuylkill, see Fish House, Philadelphia

  Statler Hotel, Boston, 72

  Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 137

  Steele, Alfred, 260, 269

  Steinhilber, George, 40

  Stevenson, Adlai, 54

  Stillman family, New York, 10

  Stone, Lucy, 117

  Stotesbury, Mrs. Edward T., 12–13, 20, 70; in Bar Harbor, 223; in Palm Beach, 243

  Strafford, Pennsylvania, 160

  Straus, R. Peter, 236

  “Strawberry Hill,” Blyth estate in Burlingame, 27

  Sub-debutante dances, see Junior dances

  Summer camp, 34

  Sunningdale Country Club, Westchester, 135

  Surf Club, Coral Gables, 257

  Sutro family, San Francisco, 18

  Swampscott, Mass., 226

  Swan, Mrs. Joseph R. (Nathalie Henderson), 100, 110, 245

  Swope Community Center, New York, 111

  Swope family, New York, 35

  Symington, Eve, 74

  Taft, Horace D., 46

  Taft, Robert A., 121

  Taft, Mrs. Robert A., 54

  Taft, William Howard, 46

  Taft family, 49

  Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, 46, 49, 77

  Talbott family, 94

  Talleyrand, Duchess of, 128

  Tamarisk Country Club, Palm Springs, 282

  Tampa Bay Hotel, 245

  Tavern Clubs, Boston and Chicago, 117

  Tavistock, Marquis of, 76

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 260

  Taylor, Mrs. J. Madison, 227

  Temple, Shirley, 192

  Tennis, 85, 167

  Tennis Club, Palm Springs, 273, 276

  Terhune, Albert Payson, 192

  Tew, Mrs. William H., 65, 91, 95

  Thieriot family, San Francisco, 18

  Thomas, Lowell, 36

  Thompson, Rex, 270, 272

  Thompson, Mrs. Wirt, 71

  Thornton, Dan, 277

  Thunderbird Country Club, 267, 272

  Tiarks, Henrietta, 75–76

  Tiffany family, 288

  Tiffany’s, New York, 69

  Time, Inc., 50

  Tobin, Mrs. Michael, 21, 24, 25

  Todd, Mike, 260

  Tolstoi, Countess Cyril, 142–143

  Tolstoi, Leo, 142

  Toswill, Timothy Dymond, 44

  Touch football, 87

  Tower, Senator John, 192, 193–194

  Towle, Sidney, headmaster of Kent, 56

  Trailer park, 270–271

  Travel, 152–153

  Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 182, 189

  Tree, Marietta, 301–302

  Trinity College, 81

  Truman, Harry, 261

  Truslow family, 288

  Tuckahoe, New Yor
k, 126

  Tucker, Mrs. Nion, 26, 31

  Tupper, New York, 232

  Turtle, Julia, 244

  Tuxedo Park, 220–221; year-round residents, 13; Autumn Ball, 62–63, 221

  Twombly family, 35

  Udall, Stewart, 208

  Uihlein family, Milwaukee, 10

  Union Club, New York, 117–118, 120, 129n.

  Union College, 81

  Union League, New York, 119–120

  United Fund, Detroit, 147

  United States Air Force Academy, 81

  United States Military Academy, see West Point

  United States Naval Academy, see Annapolis

  United States Steel Company, 46

  University of California, 81

  Van Cortlandt family, Westchester, 126

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius (Commodore), 133, 134

  Vanderbilt, Gloria (Mrs. Wyatt Cooper), 75

  Vanderbilt, William H., 54, 216, 234

  Vanderbilt, William K., 242

  Vanderbilt family, 9, 13, 35, 49, 55, 130, 132–133, 225, 281, 282, 288, 297; and Newport, 222; and Lake Placid, 233; in Palm Beach, 243

  Van der Donck family, Westchester, 126

  Vanderlip, Frank A., 131–132

  Vanderlip, Mrs. Frank A., 131–132

  Vanderlip family, 9

  Van Rensselaer family, 9, 35, 288

  Vassar College, 81, 87

  Vidal, Gore, 284

  Vidal, Nina Gore, 284

  “Viking’s Cove,” Oyster Bay, 16, 192, 193

  Villanova, Pennsylvania, 160, 164

  Villanova University, 180

  Voice, social, 7–8, 45, 168; “Massachusetts malocclusion,” 7, 168; “Philadelphia paralysis” (“Main Line lockjaw”), 168

  Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, 189

  Wainwright, General Jonathan M., 133

  Wainwright family, New York, 133, 286

  Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, 60, 74

  Walker, Nancy, 268

  Wall, Evander Berry, 232n.

  Wallace, Henry, 4

  Wain family, Newport, 222

  Walpole, Horace, 286

  Wanamaker, John, 13

  Warner, Jack, 259

  Warnock Uniform Company, 39

  Warren, Reverend Matthew M., headmaster of St. Paul’s, 56, 277

  Warrick, Colonel William H., 36, 38–39

  Washington, D.C., 81–82, 192–209; social fluidity in, 197; press corps in, 199; gaiety in, 200–201; hostesses in, 201–206; Junior League in, 208

  Washington, George, 115, 162, 293

  Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 224

  Wayne, General Anthony, 162

  Wayne, Pennsylvania, 160, 165

  Wealth, 13; responsibility of, and children, 33–34; and marriage, 89–97; and values, 301–302

  Webb, J. Watson, 238

  Webb, Dr. Seward, 233–234

  Weeders (club), Philadelphia, 167

  Weissmuller, Johnny, 254

  Wellesley College, 87

  Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, 125

  Wellington School, England, 52

  Wendel, Ella, 128–129

  Wendel, J. G., 128–129

  Wendel, Rebecca, 128–129

  Wesleyan University, 81

  West, Clifford, 147, 150

  West, Mrs. Clifford, 154

  West Hartford, Connecticut, 125, 182–191; social restrictions in, 186; and “Connecticut Yankeeism,” 186–189; community projects in, 190

  West Philadelphia, 163

  West Point (United States Military Academy), 81

  Westchester County, New York, 33, 125–139; early history, 126–132; Sound/River divisions, 132–134; Jewish population, 134–135; cocktail parties in, 214–215

  Westover School, 76

  “Wetback Group,” San Francisco, 23

  Wharton, Edith, 22

  Wheeler family, Philadelphia, 48, 49

  White Sulphur Springs, 15

  White’s Club, London, 113

  Whitehead, Commander Edward, 37

  Whitehouse, Sheldon, 295

  Whitehouse family, New York, 130

  Whiteman, Paul, 254

  Whitemarsh-Penllyn area, Philadelphia, 163

  Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt (“Sonny”), 238

  Whitney, John Hay, 121

  Whitney family, 225, 233, 243

  Whyte, Celeste, 154

  Whyte, Ray, 153

  Wickes family, New York, 10

  Widener, Ella (“Tootie”), 71

  Wiener, Mrs. Alexander, 150

  Wilcocks family, Newport, 222

  Wilde, Frazar B., 190

  Wilde, Oscar, 174–175

  Wilding, Michael, 260

  Williams, “Big Boy,” 273

  Williams College, 80, 87; Bennington field hockey game, 88

  Wilmerding family, 225

  Wilson, Mrs. John C., 185

  Winchell, Walter, 74

  Winchester School, England, 45, 52

  Windsor, Duke of, 6, 28

  Wintersteen, Mrs. John, 165, 180

  Winthrop, John, Governor of Connecticut, 286

  Winthrop, John, Governor of Massachusetts, 286

  Winthrop family, 285, 288

  Wister family, Philadelphia, 94, 162

  Wolcott family, 48

  Wolff, Viola, 67

  Wood, Alan, 174

  Woodbury Forest School, Virginia, 45

  Woodside, California, 25

  Woodward, William, Jr., 94–85

  Woodward, Mrs. William, Jr. (Ann Eden Crowell), 94–95

  Woodward, Mrs. William, Sr., 94–95

  Woodward family, New York, 10, 92

  World War II, see Second World War

  Wright, Cobina, Jr., 74

  Wrightsman, Charles B., 249

  Wurlitzer, Farny, 259

  Wyandotte Chemical Company, 146

  Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, 160, 164–165, 174

  Yacht-racing, 85

  Yale University, 35, 43, 49, 50, 54, 87; social importance of, 80–81; senior societies, 121

  Yale-Harvard Regatta, 84–85

  Young, Owen D., 46

  Zellerbach family, San Francisco, 18

  Zeta Psi, University of Pennsylvania fraternity, 80, 86

  Zimmerman, Charles, 191

  Zimmerman, Mrs. Charles (Opal Marie), 190–191

  Zobel, Myron, 259

  About the Author

  Stephen Birmingham is an American author of more than thirty books. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1932, he graduated from Williams College in 1953 and taught writing at the University of Cincinnati. Birmingham’s work focuses on the upper class in America. He’s written about the African American elite in Certain People and prominent Jewish society in Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York, The Grandees: The Story of America’s Sephardic Elite, and The Rest of Us: The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews. His work also encompasses several novels including The Auerbach Will, The LeBaron Secret, Shades of Fortune, and The Rothman Scandal, and other nonfiction titles such as California Rich, The Grandes Dames, and Life at the Dakota: New York’s Most Unusual Address. Birmingham lives in southwest Ohio.

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  Copyright © 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968 by Stephen Birmingham

  Cover design by Angela Goddard

  ISBN: 978-1-5040-2627-7

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