Louis Auchincloss, chronicler of New York?s upper crust, dies at 92

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Louis Auchincloss, a Wall Street lawyer from a prominent old New York family who became a durable and prolific chronicler of Manhattan’s old-money elite, died on Tuesday night in Manhattan. He was 92.

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