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Jacqueline Bouvier's forgotten essay The college student's prize entry to Vogue goes to JFK Library
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In 1950, a senior at George Washington University submitted a
500-word essay, a short story, a short biography and answered a
series of questions for Vogue magazine's Prix de Paris contest, which
had been won previously by writer Joan Didion. Jacqueline Bouvier
was a proper 21-year-old member of society, unknown to the world as
yet and certainly unaware that she was to become a beloved first
lady.
In 1951, she won the contest, out of a field of 1,280 applicants
from 225 colleges, and t...
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