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Continued from Page 1 Slift had boon horn lo a Georgia farm family, fought a five-year battle . against crippling polio, became a high school dropout, and failed in marriage as a child bride.But, in New York City after the breakup of her marrige, she had found that her perfect teeth made her a natural as a model for toothpaste. ads. She had worked as a fashion designer.‘•I was doing so well in New Orleans that I had time for artof the Morman Church of Buchanan.She was stiicken with polio at the age of nine, lay in a comatose condition for six months, and did not walk for five years, tier brothers took turns carrying her to school on their backs.‘One day my grandfather came into my room with a pair Df ballet slippers he had just bought for me, she said. He had got Uiem two sizes loo large because he figured my feet would grow that much before t pnnlH wear them, lie nut them
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Independent Star News
Pasadena, California, US
Sun, Jan 30, 1966
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