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Beaver, Donald DeB. '58; Bernheim, Thomas O. '58; Blohm, Henrik '56; Felstiner, Louis J., Jr. '58; Finkelstein, Elliot M. '57; Hodnett, Grey '57 (Captain); Holmes, Henry C. '57; McIntosh, Kenneth '58; MacVeagh, Charlton, Jr. '57; Magowan, Robert A. '58; Oberschall, Anthony R. '58; Perkins, James U., Jr. '58; Provenson, Herluf C. '59; Schwarz, Henry M. '58; Shue, James W. '58; Wexler, Harry J. '57; Sayre, Richard W. '57 (Manager...
...debutantes had been rushed through their curtsies too fast: "They ran those girls through just like Ziegfeld Follies girls-with clothes." In a more leisurely era, socially prominent young ladies made their debuts under family auspices. In recent years mass debuts have become the rule, and the modern deb has a commercial sponsor...
...unknown beyond the limits of Scarsdale and Greenwich (one debutante came all the way from Minneapolis). Most were greeted with a proud, polite pitter-patter of applause from their parents' boxes or tables; others got ovations. When Miss Gary Latimer, who had been dubbed the "No. 1 Glamour Deb" by New York society editors, appeared, it was like the arrival of a movie queen on the 20th Century Limited: a murmur ran through the crowd, flashbulbs popped, and Miss Latimer smiled like no one since Brenda Diana Duff Frazier...
Once listed officially as a deb, the new blossom has only to sit back and wait for the invitations to pour in. During a mad period of flowering that lasts for three months, her mornings are spent in beauty sleep, her afternoons and evenings at a never-ending round of teas, dinners and balls, her nights at nightclubs. A shrewd father can cut the upkeep for the season down to as low as ?1,000, but many a deb runs up the tabs to well over...
Meanwhile, there is the ever-present problem of finding nutrient soil in which the deb can flourish. The steady, promising young man of 30-mother's invariable choice for a son-in-law-seldom has time for the social round, so the deb for the most part must frolic with a younger, less stable type, whose main qualifications are strong legs for dancing and a talent for witty sophistication. Since such gay blades are not always reliable, the mothers at the Berkeley were busy last week grading them according to a private code. Those who rated NST (not safe...