They changed Their names but not Their noses

America, the mother of reinvention. How did they do it? In one generation they went from the slums of Brooklyn and Hell's Kitchen to Park Avenue. They stopped being Kosher, they went from a shared bathroom down the hall with 5 other families to 5 bathrooms in their apartment. It's true the wall paper in the foyer was flocked, and one sofa in the living room was covered in plastic, but otherwise they had pretty much integrated themselves into what was then called "cafe society." The books from "Limited Editions"  and the records from "Record of the Month" lined the library, unread and unlistened to (except by me), artifacts of culture were part of the decor.