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
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.