Word: deb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Gail Whitney Stur, 24, daughter of Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney, 1956 deb-of-the-year, who splashed into headlines at 18 with a surprise engagement to 34-year-old Oil Heir Richard Cowell, cancelled it when Daddy objected only to elope with Cowell, divorced him at 20, and finally settled down at Sun Valley Lodge in Idaho as the wife of the assistant manager; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...nothing on the deb circuit this year is likely to top the three-day bash at Newport that celebrated the debuts of Effie Taylor and Jacqueline Kennedy's half sister, Janet Auchincloss...
...eyes for their fetching daughter Victoria Kelly, 17, were Deb-of-the-Century Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 42 (now Mrs. Robert Chatfield-Taylor), and First Husband John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 53. When the proud parents powwowed at their old Stork Club stamping ground, both agreed there will be none of that coming-out foolishness for Victoria. "Too many people see the debut as a goal," declares Brenda, "but perspective is more important. I want my daughter to have a full life." Recently ill, the former Glamour Girl admits that her own perspective was improved by two years of psychoanalysis...
...least it's supposed to be my autobiography. I'm the coronet because daddy is a noble lord. And the weeds are what I call the chinless boys who go to deb dances. It's hell's boring, actually...
...didn't want to leave anything out. Like the Hunt Ball. You know the hostess looks like a horse and everyone's hell's boring except me. Being a deb was easy because my daddy's a noble lord. Did I mention that? And I did the beatniks too -in Chelsea. Beatniks grunt and look sick and don't wash and scratch a lot, I can tell you, which is killingly funny or something. And what else. Oh yes. A trip to Paris, where I lived with a down-and-out marquis. Mummy says...