“One Hell of a Woman by Bevil Townsend plumbs a history of women’s lives in Miss Gussie Nell Davis, Mrs. Dana Blair, and Mrs. Shelley Wayne, founder and subsequent directors respectively of the Rangerettes, a dancing drill team that “brought show business to the football gridiron.” In exploring these historical women and their creation, Townsend relies on interviews, pseudo-scientific material, an obsession with female weight and her own observation among much else, filtering it all through an exquisite poetic sensibility”
- One Hell of a Woman
Margaret Randell, judge