Camera Girl by Carl Sferrazza Anthony EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Carl Sferrazza Anthony
- Language: English
- Genre: Biographies of US Presidents
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GETTING HER CAMERA
May–August 1949
As the June 1949 wedding season approached, it seemed like every one of her
fellow Social Register debutantes wanted a husband.
All Jacqueline Bouvier wanted was a “terric camera.”
Vassar College had only just begun its nal exam period, but the sophomore
in slim skirts, who wore her long, tawny hair straightened to drape over one of
her luminous hazel eyes, was eager to complete her second year and leave the
Hudson River Valley campus behind.
Among her innumerable and pronounced
contradictions, Jackie was an excellent student who hated school. She credited
individual instructors for introducing her to subjects that became lifelong
passions, but learned more on her own, outside institutional boundaries.
She lived for socializing every possible weekend. She indulged her expensive
tastes until told to stop.
She irted her way into the heart of any beau she
wanted, yet she was intellectually ambitious. Her boarding-school headmaster,
Ward Johnson, in an unpublished letter to Jackie’s mother’s friend Molly Thayer
(who wrote the rst biography of Jackie), noted that her college-board
examinations, taken as a high school senior, “really proved the sort of mind she
has.” Of twenty-six thousand examinations, only twenty-two ranked in the “onetenth of one percent,” and “Jacqueline Bouvier’s was one of these.” However,
she also accepted the era’s belief that young women should hide their intellectual
gifts. Attesting to her “brilliant work,” Johnson noticed that “to avoid doing too
well,” she would “deliberately leave out one question on a test.”
In the weeks before she nished the Vassar semester, she had dashed down to
the annual formal Mrs. Shippen’s Dancing Class ball in Washington, and the
Virginia Gold Cup horse race in Warrenton, Virginia, but, “swamped with
work,” she then disciplined herself to study “till exams are over.” Yet again, she
made the honor roll. On the day her sophomore year ended, June 9, she departed
the campus immediately, with all she owned.
Her destination was Merrywood, her mother and stepfather’s McLean,
Virginia, estate. This was a trip she knew well, taking her through New York
City, where she’d make her way crosstown from Grand Central Station to
Pennsylvania Station to catch the train to Washington. On the way, she would
typically stop in at “that camera store by the station,” almost certainly Peerless
Camera, located at 138 East 44th Street, which was walking distance from
Grand Central, and famously oered photographers the full spectrum of new
cameras and cutting-edge equipment of seemingly all makes and models, and an
array of attachments from lenses to ashes.
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