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  • n  an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s)

  • Among them were a grandmother, seven housewives, a bobbysoxer, a women's-club president, a would-be astronaut and a cafe singer.
  • She is remembered for three roles: as the somehow-impregnated bobbysoxer in Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, as Annie Oakley in the Irving Berlin musical Annie Get .
  • Sinatra, whose bobbysoxer fans squealed as ecstatically in World War II as Elvis' would in the Cold War days, added a knowing sexuality to his exquisite reading of a lyric.

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