Nice Guys Finish First

November, 1977

A man named Coe once lived here, but it could have been Gatsby. A vast lawn sprawls beside the gray-stone English country manor bounded by red maples and rhododendrons, just waiting to be filled with careless revelers dressed to the nines and dancing cheek to cheek to a melancholy saxophone. But the glamor long ago moved east to the Hamptons and west to Manhattan and (continued on page 154) Nice Guys (continued from page 151) this estate on the north shore of Long Island is now a placid arboretu...