People: Oct. 13, 1961

Two years after she was properly introduced to international society with a $250,000 blowout at the Country Club of Detroit, and following art classes in Florence, Charlotte Ford, 20, self-starting daughter of Automaker Henry Ford II, came to Manhattan for the best of everything. Hired to help separate the chic from the gauche for the prestigious decorating firm of McMillen Inc., the shapely new Ford breadwinner will toil a five-day (9t05) week, room with two friends in an upper East Side apartment. "Miss Ford," announced her socialite boss, Eleanor Brown, "will have equal...

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