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And the Joe Coffee on the corner of Pineapple and Hicks streets is where Georgiana, the youngest daughter of “Pineapple Street”’s adamantly Social Register Stanton family, utters the immortal line, “Oh no, I left my Cartier tennis bracelet in Lena’s BMW and she’s leaving for her grandmother’s house in Southampton” as she is fatefully spotted by the reluctant heir to a zillion-dollar defense fortune.

Laffer is a tireless talker and raconteur who, in the course of an interview, can drop enough famous names to fill a social register.

The Sedgwick children’s grandmother, a Colony Club member so stratospherically snobbish that she found the Social Register vulgar and the Vanderbilts de trop, once bragged that her bare feet had never touched the ground.

At times, Mosley’s testimony felt like a live reading of the social register.

Even if their ancestors were not in The Social Register, Mr. Cuomo, Ms. Haines and Mr. Hawley were born to families whose advantages helped propel their careers.