Word: bradshaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thornton F. Bradshaw...
While Hitler's Armies were rolling methodically through Poland, and children were being evacuated from London last September, one Bradshaw Crandell, Manhattan illustrator, announced that a bright-eyed, blonde debutante named Patricia Plunkett had "what a girl needs to be beautiful," and started 18-year-old Miss Plunkett on a career as a glamor girl...
...this hullabaloo, Patricia's mother, Mrs. Dunbar Plunkett, brought Patricia out last fortnight at a staid reception where friends of the family outnumbered cafe society. But Miss Plunkett had already been chosen by bellwether Charles ("Chic") Farmer of the Stork Club. This month her face, painted by Bradshaw Crandell, appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan...
Last week, at the Coq Rouge, swank Manhattan supper club, Bradshaw Crandell's nominee became 1939's official No. 1 Debutante, successor to the glamor crown of last year's Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. Of 300 debutantes asked to rate their choices by the Coq Rouge's pressagent, 95 had answered. They gave Miss Plunkett 72 votes, 20 more than brunette Patricia Suydam, who ran second...