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...community boards and learn how to handle the press. In addition to her other duties, Philadelphia superintendent Constance Clayton distributes books to the city's homeless shelters, where 2,500 of her students sleep on any given night. "If I weren't divorced when I took the job," says Floretta McKenzie, former superintendent of the Washington system, "I certainly would have been afterward." From 1981 to 1988, McKenzie often worked seven days a week, speaking at churches on Sundays...
There was dignified, plump, white-haired Floretta D. McCutcheon, whose shrewd pressagent has built her up into the No. 1 female exhibition bowler. There was robust Marie Warmbier who, with an average of nearly 200 in three years of exhibition bowling, did poorly by sacrificing accuracy for speed in the Omaha tournament. There was freckled Mary Jane ("Little Marie") Huber, 15-year-old schoolgirl, a hopeless cripple until she was 10, who handled the ball like a grape fruit, outscored her coach, Marie Warmbier. Pretty, buxom Ella Burmeister, a grocery clerk, so excited one male spectator with her nine-game...
...Floretta D. McCutcheon of Pueblo, Colo., considered to be the world's best lady bowler: records of 250-8 for 11 games and 248-2 for 12 games, bettering her own best previous scores, and a perfect game (300), the 8th in her career; in the course of a single evening's exercise, at St. Paul, Minn. ¶ William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, itinerant Georgia heavyweight pugilist: a 12-round bout against Dan McCorkindale of South Africa; by decision; before the biggest African prizefight crowd (15,000); at Johannesburg...
Tremont -- "Floretta", Earl Carroll's half million dollar musical comedy, starring Leon Errol...
Tremont--"Floretta", Earl Carroll's half million dollar musical comedy, starring Leon Errol...