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
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