Word: cotillions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that Vag had left Cambridge and driven over the scenic route south through Mattapan and other such unpleasant locales was in itself an event of more than usual moment. It required the beautiful concept of Lester Lanin playing his cotillion-brand music before thousands of uncouth wonks who had never seen the inside of a ballroom, much less L.L. in person. To lure Vag to Brockton, of course, the fact that Jerri Vale and Joni James, along with the "live-five" disk-jockey staff of WBZ, would be sharing the same bandstand with the great man added...
Kickapoo joy juice in a bathtub appears to be one of the highlights of the "Dogpatch Cotillion" which has been scheduled for March 15. The forthcoming dance was announced recently at a Freshman Union Committee meeting...
...week was the largest item of all: a 640-sq. ft. mural for the main lobby, made up of panels depicting the early faculty of the Medical School, the early faculty of Johns Hopkins, philanthropists of Baltimore, the picture of Shriver's class of 1891 and a deep, cotillion bow from Bachelor Shriver to The Ten Famous Beauties of Baltimore, each shown "at the height of her beauty...
...ears of Manhattan night-livers were happily tuned last week to a pair of pretty girl singers. Caterina Valente had already gone far - all the way from Germany to the Cotillion Room of the posh Hotel Pierre. Barbara Lea had only gone as far as the tiny downtown and downstairs Village Vanguard, but she was already breaking many of the customers' hearts twice nightly...
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...