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This is a glamour girl in the coyote fur coat, an American aristocrat, the goddaughter of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest, 19, the youngest child of a socially prominent family, grew up on Long Island and in Palm Beach and New York City. She spent 1982 as a debutante, and all year long the New York gossip journalists mentioned her in print, often dusting off a quaint epithet: deb of the year. "I don't get tired of it," she says, having finished her eggs and her Tab and three more cigarettes cadged from...
...year after C.Z. came out, Brenda Frazier became "America's No. 1 Glamour Deb." Her name and photograph were everywhere during 1938, including the cover of LIFE, and there was a backlash: people would sometimes hiss when she walked into a restaurant. Frazier died last May-after a nervous breakdown, two marriages and a notoriously messy liaison with a titled Italian playboy-still bitter about her overwhelming deb year. "Brenda Frazier was my parents' friend," Cornelia says. "So sad. But I don't want to read about her until I get older...
...Walt Disney World to become the most popular single travel resort in the U.S. Says Lee Isgur, a respected gambling-industry analyst with the New York City investment firm of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins Inc.: "Basically, the eastern half of the country has discovered the excitement and glamour of legalized casino gambling. Millions of people can now drive two or three hours at the most, gamble for the evening, then turn around and go home...
DIED. Catherine Mackin, 44, a network news correspondent for eleven years; of cancer; at her home in Towson, Md. Blond and blue-eyed in the TV glamour mold, she proved tougher and more competent than many of her male colleagues. She emerged from six years as a Hearst newspaper reporter to gain national acclaim as an aggressive floor reporter for NBC at the 1972 political conventions. Shifting to ABC in 1977, she covered Capitol Hill and national politics...
...many tributaries. Feminists are busy networking-the liberated version of using the old-boy network. Cops, as sardonic with language as criminals are, refer to a gunshot wound in the head as a serious headache. Drug users have their codes, but they seem to have lost some of their glamour. Certain drugs have a fatality about them that cannot be concealed in jaunty language. The comedian Richard Pryor introduced the outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made a couple of its disarmingly...