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Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Photograph caption dated October 15, 1957 reads "Mittsy Hobbs, 4-year-old daughter of Mrs. Beverly Hobbs, 25, of 16950 Enadia Way, Van Nuys, pins auto club symbol on her mother as medal for pulling man from wrecked auto seconds before it burst into flames after plunging down embankment in Sepulveda boulevard canyon in Santa Monica Mountains. Michael, heroine's 2-year-old son, looks admiringly at mother who saw car driven by Paul Freedman of Reseda careen off embankment on Sepulveda boulevard and climbed down mountain to rescue him."
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