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Date Posted: 02:03:00 05/07/25 Wed
Miss Universe 1959. Photo 40.
This photo was published on 21st July 1959, three days before the final night. Contestants for the Miss Universe 1959 title at Long Beach, California, are shown between sessions of the competition.
Top, left, Miss Missouri, Barbara Stell (left), and Miss Peru, Guadalupe Mariátegui Hawkins (right), share Southern fried chicken at a luncheon given at Columbia Studio Ranch in Hollywood, California.
Top, right, Miss Myanmar, Than Than Aye (right), presents a Hawaiian-lei to Miss Korea, Hyun Choo Oh (left).
Bottom, left, Miss Iowa, Kay Nielson, 22, is dressed as an Indian squaw.
Bottom, centre, Miss France, Françoise Saint-Laurent, eats corn at the Columbia luncheon.
Bottom, right, Carol Jones, 23, of Albuquerque arrives in Los Angeles to replace Sue Simone Ingersoll as Miss New Mexico. Miss Ingersoll quit the contest, she said, not because of censure by the Catholic Church but because of “tyranny” by the pageant officials.
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