The Press: Glamor Girl

While Hitler's Armies were rolling methodically through Poland, and children were being evacuated from London last September, one Bradshaw Crandell, Manhattan illustrator, announced that a bright-eyed, blonde debutante named Patricia Plunkett had "what a girl needs to be beautiful," and started 18-year-old Miss Plunkett on a career as a glamor girl.

Originally a title conferred by gossip columnists on debutantes who haunted Manhattan's night spots, glamor girl is today an occupation, sponsored by pressagents of such eating joints as the Coq Rouge, Stork Club, 21, and publicized by columny. Debutante No. 1...

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