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Glamour Abounds, Tradition Vies With Change at This Year’s International Red Cross Ball
By Kevin ChaffeeOne guest said that he receiving line at this year’s International Red Cross Ball was “longer than the one at the Shah of Iran’s state dinner for Hailie Selassie.”
Residents of America’s most storied seaside resort treasure their traditions, especially those related to the major philanthropic gatherings that take place nightly during the Christmas-to-Easter social season. As far as the International Red Cross Ball is concerned – the oldest, grandest, and most gilt-edged of them all – change comes only at glacial pace.
This year, however, a few things weren’t quite the same at the nation’s last remaining “white-tie-and-tiara” event.
