THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.(the home collections of Jock and Betsey Whitney at Sotheby's auction house)

From: Town & Country | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: DUDAR, HELEN | Copyright information

Is there magic in the names of Jock and Betsey Whitney? Sotheby's, offering the contents of their town and country houses, thinks so.

John Hay (lock) Whitney--dedicated horseman, astute art collector, intrepid venture capitalist--once commented casually that he could not recall a single object he had ever wanted that he could not buy. And from the evidence at hand, he and his wife Betsey hardly ever stopped buying.

They filled five scattered, spacious dwellin...

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