Art: Inisfada Sale

When rich & pious Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady announced her engagement last February to William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Free State envoy to the Vatican, it also became known that she was planning to turn over her huge Manhasset estate, "Inisfada." to the Society of Jesus, sell off its reputedly brilliant collection of art. Fortnight ago a posse of New York dealers and collectors' agents trekked through the fragrance of a Long Island spring to "Inisfada," paid 50ยข a head (for charity) to enter the rambling, 87-room Tudoresque structure, took long, thoughtful looks...

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