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Town and Country, 1954

I recently came upon this old issue of Town and Country in a non-Rice related manuscript collection that one of us had out for some reason. It’s got a pretty arresting cover:

I really didn’t expect to find any Rice angle in it but I did, in a fashion spread about the glamorous women of Houston:

Here’s the caption: 

And here’s one more, not taken on campus, but it shows future Rice trustee, boxing promoter and horsewoman, Josephine Abercrombie:

Who knows where she is?

Bonus: Speaking of future Rice trustees, I think Raymond Brochstein must have still been working on his architecture degree at Rice in 1954. 

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