People, Apr. 2, 1956

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In their customary Eastertide eruption of chapeaux, the flossy milliners unveiled an exuberant array for the ladies. The trend seemed to be toward wide brims occasionally undulated with rock-'n'-roll effects. Society's Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney picked a cantilevered roller-coaster straw (by Mr. John). The Metropolitan Opera's Soprano Rise Stevens got herself up in a petalous, white eighth-melon creation (by Walter Florell). TV's Arlene Francis, peaked by a large Japanese soup bowl with synthetic bamboo sprouts tickling one ear (by Emme), looked stunningly stunned....

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