Miss Chinatown U.S.A.

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Miss Chinatown U.S.A.

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title : Miss Chinatown U.S.A.

physical description: p17-18

date : 19580318

note: Photo credit: Kem Lee Studio, San Francisco

description: Beauty Rampant is again the theme of our frontispiece and this centre spread. All readers of Chinatown News are aware of the excitement of the past few months across the border as the most lovely Chinese belles in all that great area of the continent prepared to vie for the greatest beauty prize of all - the crown that would be placed on the head of the loveliest Chinese miss that could be found from the Atlantic to the Pacific shores. Well, the event reached its climax in San Francisco during the Chinese New Year celebrations and here she is folks - right on our cover: Miss Chinatown, USA. She in June Gong, a 21-year-old senior at the University of New Hampshire. With such an array of beauty, the judges must have faced the greatest problem of their lives. Their decisions - for queen and runners up - were based solely on beauty, personality, and talent. (continues in p18)

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