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She isn't all legs
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She isn't all legs

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · August 23, 1940

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An unusual angle picture of Miss Frances Burke after the "leggy" young lady had been selected as "Miss Philadelphia" to compete in the national beauty contest in Atlantic City in September. The photographer went to some pains to get this shot.

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