Education: Education of a Debutante

While the home life of "Babs" Hutton made tabloid headlines last week (see p. 16) the genus U. S. Society Girl made another kind of copy. At University of Chicago, sober, 25-year-old Mary Elaine Ogden, no Social Registerite, submitted a learned master's thesis: The Social Orientation of the Society Girl. Miss Ogden, who lives in Waterbury, Conn., made a laborious investigation of how the Society Girl is educated and with what results. Her report is almost as belittling as the magazine confessions of a deb gone commercial.

Miss Ogden says the steps in...

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