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...stage, young ladies dressed in white and escorted by formally dressed young men moved rapidly between rows of tall tapers, curtsied, and made their way past a ringside table where sat a handsome woman who was, in a sense, their hostess. Watching the debutantes with intense interest, Jacqueline Cochran, famed flyer and businesswoman, recalled that when she was 18 she had already been working for ten years and was, she guessed, "the sole support of several people." Now, as head of Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics, Inc., she was the cotillion's sponsor. She had no part in planning the ball...
...Daddy still pays a good part of the bills, but has no responsibility for the arrangements.) Jackie Cochran's predecessors as angels of the New York Debutante Cotillion, biggest annual presentation of young women in the U.S., include Coty cosmetics, Evyan perfumes, Kayser gloves...
...Grown Up. In the procession that Jackie Cochran watched with such interest, 104 young women* were presented to society. About 2,000 guests bought tickets, netting $75,000 for the New York Infirmary...
Next was Flowing Velvet (named for a Jacqueline Cochran face cream), a "garland dance" performed by eleven young ladies swirling swatches of red and pink velvet to the tune of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World. After a professional interlude by Dancers Tony and Sally DeMarco, the debs came on again with Polka Sleigh Ride, in which, after a bit of polkaing by girls and their escorts, one group managed to arrange themselves so that they were impersonating a sleigh, while the others waved them on their way. The finale, called Shining Hour (after a Cochran perfume...
After the cotillion, Jackie Cochran had only praise for the debutantes. But if she had an 18-year-old daughter, she told a reporter, she wasn't at all sure she would allow her to come out. "I'd want her to know first of all how to work-how to make a living...