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...center of the picture is chubby, bright-eyed, 13-year-old Judy Graves, flanked by her condescending sub-deb sister Lois, and her floppy, frog-voiced friend Fuffy Adams. To Lois life merely means Boys in all shapes and sizes; to Judy and Fuffy it means squeals and nudges, their first high-heeled shoes, their first colored nail polish, food every hour, and thinking about their parents in terms of Tyrone Power and Irene Dunne. So long as it sticks to a world in which Christmas is Heaven, 35 seems old age, and giggles serve as repartee, Junior Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 1, 1941 | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Sophomore who took over the vacated chamber found, hidden under a pile of old corks and cigar bands, a small but potent metal filing box containing 74 cards. On each card was written a girl's name, her status (Wellesley, deb, Raymor, etc.), her telephone number and address, and her rating on an A to E scale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Tenant Finds Tested Telephonic Treasure Trove | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

...universal criticism seems to be that Harvard dates are inconsiderate. "They ought to be more gentlemanly-at least some of the time," Barbara Ann Paine, a Boston Deb, complained. "They might also remember," Mary Jo added, "that a shave and a hairent only cost a quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALK BETTER, SHAVE MORE, DEMAND OF TYPICAL DATES | 12/7/1940 | See Source »

...Deb Dances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFF-CAMPUS ENTERTAINMENT VARIES FROM GIRLS' COLLEGES TO LOCAL BARS | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

...come from the "right kind" of family, you'll be asked to kick in with some dough for the various sub-deb subscription dances, the minor leagues of the deb party circuit. They're on the dull side, and early, and feature no drinking. House dances are O.K. if you go with some friends, but not many Freshmen do. Girls' college dances are aabout the best fun; the Statler and Copley are the conservatively correct places to go dancing after football games, but they're pretty stuffy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFF-CAMPUS ENTERTAINMENT VARIES FROM GIRLS' COLLEGES TO LOCAL BARS | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

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