Keefe 6 In the morning, he was the first to wake. The sun was coming brightly through the trees, and he had to spend a moment or two locating himself, remembering that he was on a mountain, on a hard sleeping-bag that had become wadded and uncomfortable beneath him. He stood up. Claire and Blazer...
INC. Interoffice Memorandum From:C.W. June 2, 1917 To: J.A. PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL I hope you’ll forgive my Christian temerity, Jake, in attempting to explain matters pertaining to your religion, but the twelfth-century Jewish philosopher, Moses Ben Maimon (Maimonides) had a good deal to say o...
family—in the American sense in which society survives almost entirely on publicity. Even before the scandal which became known as Teapot Dome (after the quaintly named Wyoming town where a dome-shaped rock looked, to the pioneer settlers, a little like a teapot) and their involvement in it, the ...
45 THE FALL, AND AFTER Felix Warburg’s brother Paul had had an unhappy childhood, picked on by his older brothers Aby and Max, who called him ugly and weak. Even his mother seemed not to understand him. By the time he had reached young manhood, he had developed a distinct inferiority complex, and...
and Mrs. Jacob Schieffelin III seemed even odder. Jacob Schieffelin had fought for the British during the war. But as New York society closed ranks under President and Lady Washington, it had to be admitted that the young Schieffelins had much in their favor. Both were attractive and obviously we...
by the rest of Harlem. Occasionally, a Harlemite might take a visiting friend from out of town for a stroll along the Row—to show it off, and to demonstrate that Harlem was not all a ghetto. But, for the most part, pedestrian traffic was low—much lower than in the rest of Harlem—and was limited t...
he is saying, “before we all adjourn to the social room next door, to sample Mr. Angus Kelso’s whiskey—and his fresh springwater—I just have one more announcement to make. Our company will award a prize of ten thousand dollars to the individual who can come up with the perfect name for this whisk...
Brad said to her. This was in the summer of 1960, during her father’s first year as the company’s new president. “She called me at the office this afternoon, and I couldn’t make head nor tail out of what she wanted. When she’s drunk, she gets belligerent. The first thing I knew, she was shouting ...
It was as simple as that. To Sari, she had pretended to make light of the whole thing, pretended it wasn’t important, pretended she was merely going through the motions of it all to please her parents. But she had wanted it. She had wanted the Cotillion and the Bachelors’ Ball. She had wanted the...
Henry B. Joy of Detroit was determined to make it clear that her money was “pre-gasoline.” To emphasize the point, for fourty-four years, until her death in 1958 at the age of eighty-eight, she maintained—and drove herself—a 1914 brougham car that operated on electricity. The shiny little two-sea...
she called as he came down the hall towards her room. “Are you decent? Can I come in?” he asked her. “Come on in, baby,” she said. He opened the door and stepped inside. She was sitting up in bed with a tea-tray across her knees, flanked by two pink-shaded lamps. All around her, on the satin beds...
New In 1965, not long before she moved out, declaring that the place had simply become too expensive, Marya Mannes commented with her customary asperity that the Dakota just wasn’t what it used to be and that she simply didn’t understand the new breed of people that had moved in. “Now it’s gettin...
“Jay” Rockefeller—the right place is West Virginia 5 West Virginia: “In These Hills and Hollows” Why would the heir to one of the largest private fortunes in the world choose—indeed eagerly elect—to make his home on the fringes of Appalachia? It is all a part of the new style and meaning of wealt...
Fiedler sat on his piazza in a pair of heavy brown slacks and red canvas sandals with cork soles, and drank a Scotch-and-soda as the sun went down. He looked out across the parched lawn that had been burned to a crisp brown by the summer drought and the sea air, and waited for Dolores. It was har...
In Peking in those days there were all sorts of eligible marine and naval officers, embassy officials, and attachés, many of whom hadn’t seen an unattached white girl in months or even years, to whom the sight of any woman—particularly a rich American one—was welcome. A girl traveling to Peking w...