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Chinese Girl Gives Gifts of Gold

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Chinese Girl Gives Gifts of Gold

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title : Chinese Girl Gives Gifts of Gold

physical description: p13

date : 19590418

description: WINNIFRED LUM, who represented San Francisco at the Miss Chinatown USA contest, also represented the Golden Gate City at the S.F. International Airport during the arrival of the first Jet Flight by American Airlines from Chicago and New York. She presented incoming passengers (including Fay Emerson, the celebrated stage and TV actress, as seen on cover with Miss Lum) with packages of genuine California gold ore. (See story on page 8 and photo of the plane in centre spread.)

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