Word: glamorize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twelve 1940 debutantes met at a swank Manhattan saloon. Sipping tea, they cast votes for the season's "glamor boy," chose blond, rosy-cheeked Donald Munroe (see cut), who designs debs' clothes and is not in the Social Register...
...minor characters, scenes in subways, taxis, rubberneck wagons, a producer's office, an artist's studio, an all-night Coffee Pot, the Metropolitan Museum, the play brightly wanders all around the town-without ever really getting inside it. Its people-the opportunist and the radical, the glamor girl and the little old lady, the sailor and the floozy (Ann Thomas)-are all cut out of cardboard. Only Rice's bitter, cynical, wisecracking producer walks on his own legs, and even he is stagy...
...Stuart Kirby '43 of Rye, New York, and Weld Hall concocted the supreme publicity stunt of the year, involving the delightful combination of a "Ship-wreck Kelly" act high up on one of the trees in the Yard with a Radcliffe glamor girl waiting below, but all his well laid plans fell through when the girl demurred...
...Frederic Watriss, mother and guardian of 1939 Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, who will be 19 in June, applied to Surrogate's Court for her daughter's 1940 living expenses: $52,000. The application read: "[Brenda] ... is a grown woman moving in the society in which, because of her parents' and grandparents' background, she has taken a definite place." To another young heiress...
...Glamor Boy Fletcher Godfrey...