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That was in turn-of-the-century days, when any millionaire looking for the shortest distance between the cash register and the social register usually made a beeline for such society resorts as Saratoga, Bar Harbor, Tuxedo Park, Southampton, Palm Beach and Newport. In those days, Society with a capital S was blissfully unaware that Taxes with a capital T would ever chase it away from its playgrounds. Nowadays, as one New-porter put it before he died in 1950: "The '400' has been marked down...
Each resort had its own tone-or tried to. Tuxedo Park was the home of the tuxedo, frosty formality, and an Autumn Ball that still kicks off New York's debutante season. Like most resorts, it was built by a millionaire with a whim of iron. In the winter of 1885-86, Pierre Lorillard V (snuff and tobacco), with the aid of $1,500,000 and 1,800 personally imported Italian laborers, turned 600,000 acres of Ramapo Hills country into a select colony of stately pleasure domes. Once a "must" among top society resorters...
...Commodore Hotel. The general looked in, shortly after 10 p.m., at 2,000 festive party workers gathered in the main ballroom. "Win, lose or draw," he told them in a five-minute talk, their campaign had "irrevocably removed complacency" from Washington. Victory was in the air, but Ike, in tuxedo and black tie, radiating confidence, grinning with exuberance he could not quite hide, still made no claim. "The real job is still ahead," he said, "working for a better America." The campaign had been waged for "a line of departure, a place from which to start...
...vest-coat combination which often entails no expense whatsoever is a tuxedo vest worn with an ordinary sports coat and a black string or bow tie. The formal vest lends a distinctive dignity...
...make different socks for each foot." He sent himself huge bills from imaginary shops in London and Paris, accompanied by long technical letters discussing the special pleats for his next hunting jacket, or the exact size of the handkerchiefs he was having made for the breast pocket of his tuxedo...