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Betty Cordon, the Stork Club's official G. G. No. 1, started back to school to learn to be a kindergarten teacher. Ann Sheridan, the Harvard Lampoon's onetime choice for "least likely to succeed," joined President James Bryant Conant as an honorary editor of the literary Harvard Advocate. Sailors of the U.S. Navy decided buxom Cinemactress Jane Russell was "the girl we'd like most to have waiting for us in every port," sent her six loving cups. Home with mother was Lenore Lemmon, ten-day bride of playful Jakie Webb. Lenore said she had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, 23 (great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt), who last year was married for seven weeks, ran off with Manhattan's playful Lenore Lemmon, 18, to Moncks Corner, S.C. The bride, a refugee from Manhattan's Stork Club-excommunicated for scene-raising-had a bottle opener for a wedding ring. Blonde Vivian Stokes, 18, who canceled her debut after Jakie announced he would wed her, got the news of the elopement while she waited for Jakie in a nightclub. Said the ex-fiancée impetuously: "Jakie can have his Lemmon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Stork Club a group of café debs elected Betty Cordon, 18, official No. 1 Glamor Girl of the new season. Particulars: her height is 5 ft. 1½ in., weight 100 lb., waist 21 in., hair blonde, eyes grey-green. Her father is a banker (assistant vice president of Manufacturers Trust Co.). She likes chitlin's (pig's intestines). Her comment on the election: "Ridiculous. . . . A glamor girl should be tall, dark, and svelte. . . . I don't know what my parents will think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Stork Club, Debutante Lenore Lemmon and oil-wealthy Marian Snowden (Princess) Rospigliosi Reed Dresser had words over Lenore's style of dancing with Marian's Bradley S. Dresser. Blows swung or landed were not tallied, but next morning Lenore and friends got wires from the club announcing: "We do not now or ever want your patronage." ∙ ∙ Four hours after pretty Nancy Golden, who said she was Press Agent Richard Money's secretary, had rented a horse for a ride in Central Park, the riding academy sent out a searching party of cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...World War II? I refer to the imminence of a "Bundles for Russia" campaign. Further, the probability of a song being composed about there always being a Russia and the recitation by Lynn Fontanne of the White Cliffs of Omsk. . . . Finally, we will have Brenda Frazier startling the Stork set with a most amusing pair of diamond ear clips done in the shape of a crossed hammer and sickle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 21, 1941 | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

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