is born in Phoenix, Arizona, to R. C. Spain and Arminta Frances Cochran
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graduates from high school in White Salmon, Washington
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lives alone and supports herself from the age of 14
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wins a scholarship to University of Washington at age 16
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at the end of her freshman year, she heads for New York at age 16
marries actor-screenwriter John Falvo in New York at age 16. He's about 21.
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lives in an $8-a-week room on the West Side and works in a tie shop, where one of Walter Winchell's legmen meets her and is impressed enough to mention her in a column.
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Winchell tells: "If that gal selling you neckwear in the Cardinal Shop on Broadway and 45th looks familiar, you're right.