Canada: MANITOBA: Unraving Beauty

She had sung in the church choir, played in home-town theatricals and won scholarships at college. But nothing like this had ever happened before to 19-year-old Iris Boyd of Brandon, Manitoba. Jack Robertson, proprietor of the drugstore where she works part time, had sent her picture in to a Dominion-wide beauty contest for Peggy Sage cosmetic clerks. Iris had been chosen "Canada's Raving Beauty."

The Peggy Sage people, who had only seen her picture, were a little anxious. They found they had nothing to fear. Iris can pass all the tests: curly brown hair, sparkling blue-grey eyes, a flawless complexion,...

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