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Elizabeth Firestone, daughter of Akron's rubber tycoon Harvey Jr., made her debut in Manhattan at 1941's biggest, richest party. To the taffeta-prinked Ritz-Carlton ballroom swarmed guests from Akron, Cleveland, Detroit, to mingle in the dance-floor crush with Vanderbilts, Laments, Warburgs, Aldriches. Meyer Davis' orchestra played a new number—Night, music by Elizabeth Firestone. Three sons of three famed friends in industrial history got together, gave the nation's family album a good new picture—Elizabeth's father, son of the rubber pioneer; Edsel Ford, son of Henry; Charles Edison, son of Thomas Alva.