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Authors: Laurence Leamer
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 176
Rich, Denise, 151
Robertson, Cliff, 307
Robinson, Dick, 161
Rock, Peter, 226–28
Rockefeller, John D., 107
Rooney, Bridget, 174
Ross, Cathleen,
see
McFarlane-Ross, Cathleen
Ross, Walter, 195, 196, 199–204, 296
Cathleen’s marriage to, 199
Roth, David, 255, 260–61
Ruddy, Chris, 164
Rumbough, David, 307
Rumbough, Janna, 307, 309
Rumbough, Margaretha, 307
Rumbough, Stanley M., Jr., 306–10
birthday celebration of, 309–10
Russell, Charles M., 176
Russell, Jane, 70
Ruttenberg, Abby, 167–68
Ruttenberg, Reid, 167
Rybolovlev, Dmitry, 178
Sailfish Club, 8, 226
Scaasi, Arnold, 103, 216, 243–45
Schrafft, George, 47, 52–53, 54
Schrafft, Victoria, 53, 54
Schumpeter, Joseph, 147
Schur, Edie, 165–67, 168
Schur, Marvin, 165–67, 168
Schur, Matthew Henry, 166
Schwarzman, Stephen A., 78, 147–48
Scripps, Betty, 122, 146–47
Seaview Tennis Center, 24, 25
Senecal, Tony, 90–92, 93
Seven-Year Itch dinner dance, 195–96, 200–202, 204
Sheeran, James, 63, 125
Shiny Sheet,
see Palm Beach Daily News
Simmons, Desmond, 7
Simpson, Wallis, 14
Singer, Isaac Merritt, 58
Singer, Paris, 57–58, 59
Sitting Bull, 176
Sjostrom, Jan, 176
Skelly, Carolyn, 49
Slade, 286–87
Slater, Andrew, 255, 256
Smith, Lesly, 145
Smith, William Kennedy, 174
Social Register,
100
Society of the Four Arts, 131–32, 135–36
Sonnabend, A. M., 81–82
Sophie, Countess of Wessex, 208
Standard Oil, 107, 108
Stanley, Diana, 204–5
Starr, Kenneth, 175
Stein, Irving, 97
Stendhal, 134
Stockham, Angela,
see
Koch, Angela
Browder Gauntt
Stockham, Doug, 174
Stone, Edward Durrell, 2
Streisand, Barbra, 243–44
Strong, Marianne “Mimi,” 292
Strong, Mrs. John L., 6
Sullivan, Ed, 52
Sun and Surf Beach Club, 8, 9, 81, 82
Sutka, Bruce, 6, 234–40, 287
Swain, Ashley, 277, 278, 282, 283, 284
Swanson, Dan, 149–50
Taki, 303
Taubman, Alfred, 302
Thatcher, Margaret, 125
Time,
93
Titanic,
135
Tocqueville, Alexis de, ix
Todd, John J., 272
Town & Country,
99
Trump, Donald, 69, 85–87, 89–90, 92–94, 156, 162, 164, 225
Combs and, 93
gay community and, 242
Gosman estate purchased by, 181
lawsuits of, 95
Rumbough and, 308
Senecal and, 90, 91–92, 93
Trump, Ivana, 85, 247
Trump International Golf Club, 95–97, 248
Turquoise and Denim Ball, 289–90 “Twilight Zone” event, 239
Tydings, Eleanor (Gillet), 214, 217, 224
Tydings, Joseph D., 214
Tydings, Millard E., 214
Underwood, Mary, 123
Urban, Joseph, 57
USA Today,
33, 34
Vanity Fair,
223
Van Vooren, Monique, 40–41, 44, 151, 291, 292
Von Pantz, Terry, 155, 156
Wagner, Cyril, 96
Wainscott, Barbara,
see
Berger,
Barbara Wainscott
Wainscott, Jeffrey, 7
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, 14
Warhol, Andy, 41
Watermark, 181
Washington Post,
30
Wexner, Leslie, 179
Whitehall, 8, 9, 81, 82, 108
Coconuts New Year’s Eve Party at, 295–96, 298–300
Whitmore, Sue, 160–61, 162
Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt
“Sonny,” 18, 99–104
death of, 103
Whitney, Gail, 100
Whitney, Marylou, 18–19, 20, 98–105, 121, 212, 218, 243, 296, 302
Hendrickson’s marriage to, 127, 227
Winchell, Walter, 52 “Winter Dreams” (Fitzgerald), 156–57
Worth Avenue, 114, 123, 229, 230, 248, 273
James Hunt Barker Galleries on, 249, 250
Sutka’s window displays on, 234–36
Wright, William, 46–47
Wrightsman, Stephanie, 234
Yost, Lois, 188
Young, Sally Fenelon, 236
Young Friends of the Red Cross Ball, 236–39
Laurence Leamer
is the author of twelve books, including
Make-Believe: The Life of Nancy and Ronald Reagan, The Kennedy Women, The Kennedy Men, King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson
and
Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
A member of the Peace Corps and a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, Leamer was on staff at
Newsweek,
and has written for
The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Playboy
and many other publications.
MADNESS UNDER THE ROYAL PALMS
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