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American girls start smoking when they are too young and use too much makeup. They also dress "kinda sloppy." These are the opinions of 13-year-old Barbara May, convening with 250 other teen-age girls from Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Kansas last week in Denver...
...conventioneers were Senior Girl Scouts. They listened earnestly to talks which covered world peace, juvenile delinquency, table manners and sex. They decided that the country's 1,000,000 Girl Scouts could raise $250,000 for foreign relief next year by giving up "a couple of candy bars." Barbara, one of the youngest and therefore least noticed, screwed up her courage enough to say at a race-prejudice discussion: "We shouldn't be mean to people; we should treat them just as we want to be treated...
...Shirley-Savoy Hotel ballroom, Barbara & friends watched with a professional air as sister delegates demonstrated good manners. Everyone enjoyed most the skits showing horrible examples (see cut). The skit which got the loudest applause: "Monopolizing the Telephone while the Rest of the Family Wait...
...Said Barbara May: "I haven't had a date yet so I don't know about those things. Anyway I don't think a girl should date before she's 14 and a freshman...
...Barbara Hutton, thrice-married* dime-store heiress, boarded a plane for a month's junket to Paris and London, explained with more candor than discernment why she would never marry again: "You can't go on being a fool forever...