19 year old Shirley Ann Ruman making air flight to Paris to meet father. Times. It looks like Shirley may not be able to take the bathing suit her sister, Mrs. Maurice E. Forseth, is holding since the suitcase is already too full to handle everything that's already in it. Shirley Ruman's father, Frank A. Ruman, had been in Africa on business and she arranged to meet him in Paris before he headed to another part of the world. She would spend ten days in New York City before flying to Paris. (T.Times, 8/22/1947, p.1)

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