#OTD Dec 10, 1955: Popular Chicago model Cordie King (center) is featured in the Chicago Defender article on a benefit she presented (showcasing Parisian-influenced hairstyles) at the Morrison Hotel's Terrace Casino “in her debut as a song stylist”. The models showing off looks from the show are (clockwise) Loretta Conley, Edwina Baltazar, Vivian Pryor and Francis Wilson.
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"Cordie King, Chicago Model, 1956." Historianspeaks, December 11, 2025. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/cordie-king-chicago-model-1956.
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