bobbysoxer

The last bobbysoxer, she was Frank Sinatra's greatest fan until he became "so old."

Instead she had command of jive talk, adolescent slang, and high school double-talk which would be meaningless to any but another American bobbysoxer.

Inevitably, the strip was full of teenage slang, starting with that of the bobbysoxer era but moving with the times.

He describes BobbySoxer girls as beautiful, intelligent, elegant, educated, classy, hardworking, young women.

Glancing sideways I saw something strange, something anomalous: a girl, a plump little bobbysoxer, edging tremulously down the bar towards me.

Connie Miller: A 17-year-old bobbysoxer from Ogden, Utah.

Later, at 31, he observed that he felt suicidal on what should have been the happiest day of his life when he won an Academy Award for his screenplay for The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer.

In New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, it would be a head-turner: a mid-1950's Cadillac, jet black, mint condition, equipped as for a movie star or head of state, with barely 5,500 miles on the clock and chrome-trimmed tail fins to make a bobbysoxer weep.