I can read "Hicks" on her tag?

Poles appear to be flash stands, judging by light source.

Man, those old panels are wild, and can appear to be nonsense to modern aesthetics.

The clipboard looks like legal-sized to me. And those clips go crooked a LOT when used

The nametag on the other image is blurry as well. I think it's scanning artifact since the photo seems to have good depth of field.

On the clipboard: It just looks to be legal sized ( like this one ). Growing up we had a couple of them (might have even come from the AF as my dad was in the service, and worked in Data Operations). The papers on the desk look to be legal (or some other non 8.5 x 11 format) as well.

And the smashed up bottom of the masonite leads me to believe that it's just well used, so the bent clip isn't unreasonable. It's hard to tell, but the guy could just be holding a clipboard backwards, since the bottom edge kind of looks like broken masonite as well (but could be bent folio paper).

Not saying that it's not AI, just that the clipboard doesn't look unnatural to me, having had some roughly that size.

Edit: On her nametag. it's probably just lighting. Those are engraved name tags, so the lights reflecting off of the plastic wouldn't be unexpected. It appears to have a name "Hicks" on it, where most AI I see just has jumbles that kind of seem like letters.

The poles could be further apart than they seem. The poles could be for a lighting rig for professional photos?

Her nametag might be blurred out for privacy reasons. Though it is not very blurred, might jsut be a problem with fous, after all it was purely manual back then wasn't it?

Now I am not saying you aren't right but there could be multiple explanations.