Lois Driver Mount Dora Star of 1949 Topic file
Lois Driver, discovered in Mount Dora Florida, rises from local beauty queen to statewide figure. From Sorrento to Mount Dora High School to Tangerine Queen and Agriculture Queen, her clip file grows as she heads toward a New York cover shoot.
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Lois
Mount Dora
Zellwood
Sorrento
Fuller Warren
University of Florida
Lois Driver
Ladies Home Journal
Florida
Mount Dora High School
Lake County
Carl Graves
Chamber of Commerce
Wildwood Labor Day
Orlando
Winter Haven
New York
Manhattan
Jim Wetz
Groveland Case Eyed Through Long Night of Fear and Fire
Journalists recount the Groveland incident with sheriff and state attorney probing a bolita joint and a tense Bay Lake community. They describe armed crowds, a white mob, a white woman’s false rumor, and the brutal assault of a young couple as they sought aid on a rural road.
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Kirkland
Bolita
Vice
First
Stuckey’s
Hunter
Seair
Mascotte
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Brown
Florida
McCall
Girlbride
Eac
Clay Road
Persicae
Ir Aan
Beeak
Yates
Groveland
Okahumpka
Highway 27
Journey North Heat Tolls Mount Dora Widow in Whitefield
Mrs Rae W Blair aged, longtime Mount Dora resident, died of a heart attack in Whitefield New Hampshire after a long road trip with her dog Ginger. Funeral services held there last Saturday. She widow of Arthur Blair and was a past matron of Winona chapter Order of the Eastern Star. She also served with Roger Walcott Post auxiliary of the Spanish War Veterans.
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Rae W. Blair
Mount Dora
New Hampshire
Ginger
Florida
Whitefield
Blair
Orange St
Lois Wins Tangerine Queen Title in Winter Haven Contest
Lois, stepping daintily before judges, won the Tangerine Queen contest conducted last November in Winter Haven. The photo shows her in the same dress her mother made, with the prize cup now at Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Driver's Sorrento home, as Lois works as an aquamaid at Cypress Gardens this summer beside Ann Williamson, former Ladies Home Journal cover model.
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Lois
Celia Claflin
Mount Dora
Cele
Winter Haven
J. E. Driver
Sorrento
Cypress Gardens
Ann Williamson
Ladies Home Journal
Neighborly Tales From Homer Tattersall Mount
The piece recalls 12 years of close neighbors in the Berkshire Hills with Homer Tattersall. Mutual respect grows despite his reluctance to answer direct questions, as neighborly chats reveal wit and a cautious nature. A New York broker later jokes about buying a used mower and ends up entangled with an old scythe.
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Homer
Tattersall
J. J. Belden
New York
Frazer Cottage
J. J
Homer Tattersal
Tattersal
Mr. Belden
Mr. Tattersall
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Lake Jem
Ronnie Parker
Fred Gosnell
Joe Wilcox
Sonny Woods
Johnny Woods
Junior Thompson
Center Hill
Sumter County
Burtoft
Lawrence Burtoft
Life Magazine
Lawrence
Bay Lake
Min Chhildren
Mary Baker Eddy
Briggs
Harry Briggs
New England
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