No Holds Barred: Go Big or Go Home
Drab 57th street flake ... a sign of the season?No Holds Barred: Go Big or Go Home By Blair Sabol I couldn’t believe I had to stare at this 70-year-old man's hairy legs (dirty sandaled feet) the whole...
View ArticleResort Life: Chapter XXX, May 1966 - September 1966
Down East. Labor Day weekend sailboat races, 1966. Carrie Hollingsworth, left, and Polly Howe. Mrs. Hollingsworth's pearls are essential lifesaving accessories for any nautical outing along coastal...
View ArticleChapter XXXI: Palm Beach 1966-1967
April, 1967. Palm Beach. Ellen Ordway, HRH Duke of Windsor, and Molly Phipps.Chapter XXXI: Palm Beach 1966-1967 The Duke and the DebutanteBy Augustus Mayhew NYSD’s showcase of Ellen Glendinning...
View ArticleResort Life, Chapter XXXII: Summer 1967
August 1967. "Good morning Nancy!" It is 7 am and Nancy Lancaster, celebrated American trendsetter of English style innovations, is already at work in her fabulous garden at Haseley Court where Ellen...
View ArticleResort Life, Chapter XXXIII: August - December 1967
Down East. Labor Day Weekend, 1967. Aboard Trailaway. Coxie and Granville Ernest Toogood with their son Granville Newbold Toogood. Both father and son were authors. A noted advertising executive...
View ArticleEllen Ordway, Resort Life: Chapter XXXIV
Palm Beach,1968. From Via Mizner to Suburbia, Lilly Pulitzer's fearless bold colors in a kaleidoscope of patterns were available at fourteen Lilly shops and at Lord & Taylor. Lilly Pulitzer,...
View ArticleResort Life, Chapter XXXV: June-December 1968
August 1968. Down East, Maine. "Little Gerda" Newbold, Gerda Crozer Paumgarten Newbold, and Meta Craig Paumgarten Burden. Gerda and Meta's parents, Philadelphian Elise Biddle Robinson and Austrian...
View ArticleResort Life, Chapter XXXVI
August 1969. Down East. Frederick "Freddy" Melhado arrives on a 85-foot motor sailboard with his two sons and Joe Meehan aboard.Resort Life, Chapter XXXVI: January 1969- September 1969 Medway...
View ArticleResort Life, Chapter XXXVII: Fall 1969 – Winter 1970
December 1969. Palm Beach. "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Lillian & Alfonso Fanjul & Family."Resort Life, Chapter XXXVII: October 1969 – February 1970 London + Ireland + Palm Beach +...
View ArticleResort Life, Chapter XXXVIII
August 1970. Aboard the yacht Sea Star. Eddie Graves and Brooke Astor. Ahoy!Resort Life, Chapter XXXVIII: January 1970 – December 1970 Palm Beach + Boca Grande + Down East + Brittany + IrelandBy...
View ArticleResort Life, Chapter XXXIX: 1971
May 1971. Baronscourt Castle. Omagh, County Tyrone. Lady Diana Duff-Cooper and Mary Cushing. Regarded as the most beautiful woman of her generation, Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners Duff-Cooper...
View ArticleEdwin A. Goodman
Edwin Goodman in the offices of his venture capital firm, Milestone Venture Partners, surrounded by family photographs.Edwin A. Goodman by Delia von Neuschatz Edwin A. Goodman is that rare and...
View ArticleResort Life, Chapter XL
November, 1971. Palm Beach. Ogden Phipps and Dysie Davie. "Ogden's birthday party." Ogden Phipps (1908-2002) was one of the nation's leading thoroughbred owner-breeders, having spent 70 years of his...
View ArticleResort Life: Chapter XLI, 1973
18 February 1973. Everglades Club, Palm Beach. A black-tie roast celebrates bachelor Bob Leidy "… in his farewell appearance" before his marriage to Nicole Redfield.Resort Life: Chapter XLI, 1973 Palm...
View ArticleNo Holds Barred — Modern Day "Feminism"
All-Lady Tribe: Naomi Watt, Nicole Richie, Stella McCartney, Chelsea Handler, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Gwen Stefani @GwenStefani via Twitter (of course).No Holds Barred — Modern Day...
View ArticleResort Life, Chapter XLII, 1974-1975. The End.
September 1974. American Museum of Natural History Wildlife Trip to Africa. Ellen Ordway perched, camera at the ready. At the front of the jeep, Dr. Richard Van Gelder, head of the museum's mammalogy...
View ArticleA Debutante's Diary Part I: 1919-1920
Deauville. 1920. On the terrace at La Potiniere Café, two of Philadelphia's poised debutantes, Ellen Glendinning, left, and her sister Mary Glendinning, right, wait for the champagne to flow. The...
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