The private lives of editors, No. 3

“Nancy has homes in New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut — in addition to a three-story Manhattan apartment on Fifth Avenue. The New Hampshire hideaway — a charmingly renovated barn — is her most-telling blithe spirit badge. There’s a fringed surrey in the hallway in which coats can be dumped, a buggy on the second floor for impromptu sitting, and an old-fashioned sleigh in the living room so that cocktail party guests can climb in and chat in relative privacy.” — Marian Christy of the Boston Globe, describing the assorted abodes of Nancy White, editor of Harper’s Bazaar from 1958 to 1971.