Bunky Mortimer’s Upper Class Guide to Drinking

Yes, I"€™m a recovering alcoholic and haven"€™t touched a drop in some time, but whom would you choose to give advice on boozing"€”a water-drinker? Let me deal with that ...

Hocking Loogies

One of the unintended consequences and, for me, an unanticipated pleasure of the Fox/Cablevision dispute and blackout has been once again listening to baseball on the radio rather ...

Black Tie for Dummies

You know what gets me hot under my Brooks Brothers collar? It's the goofballs who go off the rails into fantasy-land when it comes to formal wear. What do you suppose it means ...

Semper Fi

For about an hour I watched the Columbus Day Parade from the rise of Lenox Hill at 71st Street, just north of the Frick mansion on Fifth Avenue's shady side. The first element ...

Ivana Lowell Bites the Silver Spoon That Feeds Her

Guinness heiress Ivana Lowell has released her memoir, Why Not Say What Happened? I"€™ll tell you why: It's a bore. A rich and privileged kid's twisted family history. The story ...

Keeping Standards High in Clubland

"€œIn the Bengal Club at Calcutta they don"€™t allow dogs or Indians, but in the Yacht Club at Bombay, they don"€™t mind dogs; it's only Indians they don"€™t ...

American Boarding Schools: No Boot Camp For Boys

As the herds of wildebeest migrate in October and November, when the short rains come, from the grasslands of the Masai Mara to the breeding grounds of the Ngorongoro Serengetti, ...

Bunky Mortimer’s London Season Diary

We WASPS have a long tradition with the London "€œSeason."€ The Chelsea Flower Show, Royal Ascot, Wimbledon, Henley, Glorious Goodwood in mid-summer, it's very old hat to us. ...

Queen Elizabeth Makes a Rare Appearance for King Constantine

Well, that was an easy one. King Constantine of the Hellenes—that's the Greeks, for any of you who never got past fourth grade—celebrated his 70th birthday in his ...


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