PATIENCE and FORTITUDE, 1956

Mary Cumming, Vassar ’57, has an interesting first job in New York as a secretary in the office of industrial designer Raymond Loewy. She landed the job without the help of friends and now gets $70 a week. Several young men dance attendance on Mary, but she would like to work two years more before settling down...

(Photos by Phillip Harrington for the Look magazine assignment “Career Girl,” via Shorpy)