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Social Diary• January 27, 2022

The Life in the House and the House in the Life of Mrs. Astor

How the mansions of the tycoons of Gilded Age that came after the Civil War established the Upper East Side of the 21st century...

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Be it ever so palatial, there’s no place like home — If you’re a billionairess like this lady

House• January 24, 2022.
The 54-room, three-story penthouse on Fifth Avenue, built for a legendary American heiress on land replacing the mansion she owned and now divided into nine separate and spacious residences... READ MORE
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Revisiting and returning to the collection of a friend

Social Diary• January 21, 2022.
Looking at the life of a friend, Pierre Durand, who died last year and whose estate is going up for auction at Christie’s next Thursday, January 27th... READ MORE
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Pulling back the curtains

Social Diary• January 18, 2022.
Snowless January so far, but Broadway’s re-opening; and Peggy got quarantined at a friends’ villa in Umbria, and how she just made it out of the country escaping by Delta to New York... READ MORE
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Striving to be colorblind

Social Diary• January 17, 2022.
Thinking of Dr. King on this day and on many other days in these times... READ MORE
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Hollywood Lives, Part II, Women in Charge

Social Diary• January 12, 2022.
Women in Charge; always a good story... READ MORE
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Hollywood Lives, Part I

Social Diary• January 11, 2022.
Hollywood women, before (the liberation) and after (now)... READ MORE
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Easy to get carried away

Social Diary• January 10, 2022.
Every mother’s dilemma when it comes to the favorite son. Even with the Windsors... READ MORE
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Change in the weather; change in the sea …

Social Diary• January 7, 2022.
And the beat goes on! it says in the lyric, and so it is in the last Diary for the first week of the New Year!... READ MORE
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Steppin’ in Society, Part II

Social Diary• January 6, 2022.
Part II with Steppin’ in Society in a faster world of publicity and glamour ripe for scandals and on to the new world of today... READ MORE
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Steppin’ in Society, Part I

Social Diary• January 5, 2022.
On a cold and quiet January weekday in New York, we’re re-running another New York when it was hotter and hardly quiet... READ MORE
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Remembering Arlene Dahl

Social Diary• January 4, 2022.
A tribute to a Star from the days when 80 million Americans went to the movies every week!... READ MORE
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Our 21st annual holiday Diary

Social Diary• January 1, 2022.
This is it; the moment we’ve all been waiting for, like it or not; with a display of a holiday message that reminds of the best of it, and maybe more out there for us... READ MORE

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