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Barefoot Girl. The story of Candidate Jacqueline Cochran is beyond the rosiest dreams of Horatio Alger. She does not know who her parents were, or where she was born an estimated 47 years ago. Her childhood was spent in a succession of Florida and Georgia cracker shanties, in dreary sawmill towns at the dead ends of Tobacco Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars...
From such a bleak beginning, Jackie Cochran became a beautician, a nurse, a good airplane pilot, and the wife of Multimillionaire Floyd Odium. After her marriage, Jackie's career (or careers) soared upward like a jet plane. As the head of her own nationally known cosmetics firm, she is a keen and successful business woman. As the U.S.'s No. 1 aviatress, she has won scores of awards, set dozens of records, was the first woman to break through the sound barrier. During World War II she headed the women pilots' ferrying service, the WASPs...
...Republican John Phillips announced that he would give up his seat in Congress as the Representative of California's 2gth District (the Imperial and Coachella Valleys and surrounding wasteland), Jackie instantly tossed her Lilly Dache bonnet in the ring (TIME, Nov. 14). It was no feminine caprice: Jackie Cochran has long had a hankering to go to Congress, and, unlike many of the big landowners in the Imperial Valley (40% of the land is held by absentee owners), she has spent a great deal of the past 20 years personally operating the 600-acre Odium ranch, and is well...
Jorgensen covered the 440 free style in 4:54.7 to break by 1.6 seconds the Cornell pool mark for the event. He also won the 220 in 2:12.5. The Crimson's Tom Cochran placed fourth and third respectively in these races...
Crimson captain Jim Jorgenson should take care of the next event, the 220. Soph- omore Tom Cochran will seek to win permanently the position of Jorgensen's running mate in this event...