Bulletin's Blonde

Jeane Hofmann (born Margaret Jeane-Marie), 22, is a tall, pretty blonde who always wanted to do "something different." In Florida last week she was doing it.

Jeane was covering the baseball training camps as cartoonist-writer for the Philadelphia Bulletin, the first woman to tour the major-league camps on daily assignment. Her anxious mother in Los Angeles writes to her, "telling me to watch their language, don't go out alone, be careful of married men." Jeane neither drinks, smokes nor cusses.

But Jeane knows her way around with athletes. While still in Los Angeles High School she covered baseball, hockey, football for the Hollywood Citizen-News. She drew the program cover for the 1939 Rose Bowl game, once pressagented a Stanford football player whom she misjudged to be a sure screen bet. In August 1940, driving 600 miles a day, Jeane went to Philadelphia for a cartoonist's job on the Bulletin. A flop on the feature page (she hated to draw women's styles especially), she got along fine as sports cartoonist, soon added a column of writing. On the sly she has been writing a novel; she says "I can't write a straight line any more than I can draw one," meaning she prefers humor.

Her favorite athletes are baseball players, because "they are natural, fun-loving, are of a higher class than is often portrayed." And "they make excellent husbands." But to the question whether she means to marry one, she answers, with a flash of teeth that would do credit to an athlete: "What, and give up all this?"

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