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...union men had come to hear a debate between two rival candidates for the school board, but their favorite, a union president, had not appeared. As his opponent, a plump, middle-aged matron, stepped to the microphone, the audience began to boo and stamp. They did not know Mrs. Norma Wulff...
...union audience didn't take kindly to her remarks, but they listened. And when, after the speech, Mrs. Wulff got an anonymous threat in the mail, that didn't stop her either. Nothing could. She talked on street corners and at over 100 rallies. Eventually, Norma Wulff, the mother of two grown daughters, talked herself into a seat on the school board. Four years ago she became the first woman president of Cleveland's school board...
Soon, once indifferent Clevelanders were jamming the meeting hall to hear what Norma Wulff had to say. She was garrulous and disjointed in her speech, but she made her points by the force of her enthusiasm and an irresistible supply of facts. Gradually accepting her as someone they could trust, teachers brought her stories of corruption, of campaign shakedowns, of unjust dismissals, and of board members who kept their relatives on the city payroll. The year she became president of the school board, Clevelanders went the whole way with her, voting the labor bloc out of office...
Politically a conservative Republican, she fights anyone-unions or real-estate boards-she thinks in the wrong. It keeps her busy. Up at 6 a.m.-long before her husband, who is a telephone company supervisor-Norma Wulff starts her day talking on her two private telephones. As she eats breakfast and washes the dishes, she has the receiver hooked to her shoulder, talking incessantly to teachers, newspapermen and P.T.A. women (she was president of the all-city P.T.A. before her election to the board...
This year Hollywood plans to reissue at least 68 pictures, twice as many as last year. Moviegoers are already seeing, or will see, Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford in The Women (1939), Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941), Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart in Destry Rides Again (1939), Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard in Intermezzo (1939) and Paul Muni in Scarface...