Plank is quick to admit that he did not buy Sagamore, once a Vanderbilt family holding, out of some long-standing love affair with horse racing.

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Consider, for example, Greta Garbo's lovely, sad, saucer eyes, or a puzzling, dazzling photo of three women wearing stark white, flanking a white horse and standing in what looks like a white-tiled communal shower (actually Steichen's studio).

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