A year after the night of the Met Gala, on a brilliant autumn Saturday, the sunlight streamed through the magnificent stained-glass rose windows of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, illuminating the cavernous marble nave in brilliant shafts of sapphire, crimson, and gold. Six hundred guests filled the carved mahogany pews: senators, federal judges, foreign ambassadors, Wall Street titans, and the thirty surviving former employees of Arthur Cross’s historic brokerage…
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