Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one other family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me.There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they …
Month: December 2020
The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and the Making of the Cold War. The very title of this new biography affirms the many and clear connections between Lodge’s pedigree and his public career as a politician and diplomat. A U.S. Senator, ambassador to the U.N., Richard Nixon’s running mate in 1960, Kennedy’s ambassador to …
During the Great Depression, workers at Rockefeller Center proudly pooled their money to purchase the original Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. It was a 20-foot balsam fir, and they adorned it with home-made garlands, standing it at the Rockefeller Center construction site as a symbol of hope and optimism. Two years later, in 1933, Rockefeller Center …
Recounting the glamour and rituals of her debutante days, and musing on the future of this celebrated tradition.
