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SHY, MODEST GIRL STRIVES TO MAKE GOOD Originally published 1957

Jayne Mansfield sometimes startles reporters by announcing that she has a master five-year plan for taking Hollywood and the nation into her camp. “The first step, which is to get all the men stirred up, is about three-quarters completed, as I see it,” she says. “The next step — the one I'm working on now — is to get all the women stirred up. This could backfire,” she frowns. “To make it work, I'll probably have to start emphasizing my home life and the PTA and all that. When that's done,” Miss Mansfield says firmly, “I may take a shot at the intellectuals.”

In Hollywood some evenings ago, Miss Mansfield made an entrance into the auditorium of her daughter's school to attend a PTA meeting. She had thought seriously of wearing a cloth coat, but decided

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