The Press: Bulletin's Blonde

Jeane Hofmann (born Margaret Jeane-Marie), 22, is a tall, pretty blonde who always wanted to do "something different." In Florida last week she was doing it.

Jeane was covering the baseball training camps as cartoonist-writer for the Philadelphia Bulletin, the first woman to tour the major-league camps on daily assignment. Her anxious mother in Los Angeles writes to her, "telling me to watch their language, don't go out alone, be careful of married men." Jeane neither drinks, smokes nor cusses.

But Jeane knows her way around with athletes. While still in Los Angeles High School she covered baseball, hockey, football for the...

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