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Tuxedo Park: A Dream Revived
George Plimpton
October 13, 1958
Where Lorillards and Astors danced, the Joneses play today—on a $1 million golf course
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October 13, 1958

Tuxedo Park: A Dream Revived

Where Lorillards and Astors danced, the Joneses play today—on a $1 million golf course

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As for the social exclusivity of Tuxedo—that seems to remain, whatever the social status or the income level of its present inhabitants. The eight-foot fence which protects Tuxedo from the outside world creates an atmosphere which justifies the closing stanza of a poem on the subject of the New Tuxedo:

Thumbs up, you Astors! You Lorillards, heads high!
So long as there are Smiths and in their bones is
Bred the necessity of keeping up with Joneses.

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