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Big Spenders By Lucius Beebe Rockefellers Carnegies Harknesses Fords Hard Cover
The Big Spenders By Lucius Beebe Dark Blue cover
Hard Cover
Copyright 1966
404 Pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Forewordvii
Chapter One: Patroons and Parvenus1
Two: Golden Times, Golden Gate34
Three: Pets of the Lobster Palaces69
Four: The Benevolent Blackmailer93
Five: Three Parties that Made Headlines107
Six: Magnifico of Maxim's132
Seven: How You Traveled Was Who You Were154
Eight: How to Move Stylishly169
Nine: Good Times in the Money Mountains198
Ten: The Men230
Eleven: The Plutocrats of Pittsburgh273
Twelve: Bonanza Bazaar295
Thirteen: Misfortune's Darling310
Fourteen: Game Preserve for the Rich 344
Fifteen: teen: Fun with Real Estate364
Bibliography 394
Index396
The epic story of the rich rich, the grandees of America and the Magnivicoes and how they spent their fortunes.
The student and connoisseur of splendid gestures and massive elegances among the well-to-do of the world need not look in THE Big SPENDERS for mention of the charitable bequests of the Rockefellers, the endowments, foundations and benevolences of Carnegies, Harknesses, and Fords or any chronicle of moneyed good works generally The author's concern has been with more worldly and less sanctified expenditures in the field of splendid entertainment, ostentatious real estate, sea-going yachts, gold table service, garages filled with Rolls-Royces, platoons of liveried flunkies, vintage wine in double magnums, galleries of old masters both bogus and authentic, titled sons-in-law, stables of thoroughbreds, and existence at what may be termed the Cartier-diamond- necklace- and-terrapin Maryland level. Here you may discover how Frederick H. Prince took a $50,000 swipe at his polo groom, how the best dressed women make do on a bare $200,000 a year, how Boni de Castellane spent $12,000,000 of Jay Could's money in record time, and life as it was lived among the mining nabobs of Colorado at a time when Spencer Penrose sometimes left himself bedside memos cautioning against spending more than $1,000,000 next day. The people of The SPENDERS mostly brushed their teeth in vintage Champagne and their valets polished the soles, as well as uppers of their boots, "in case the master wanted to cross his legs."
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