Miss Universe 1955. Photo 20.

Miss Universe 1955. Photo 20.

This photo was published on 14th July, eight days before the final night. Fourteen beauties from foreign lands (left) leave the plane that brought them to Long Beach for the Miss Universe contest. From left to right, Miss Argentina, Isabel Sarli; Miss Sri Lanka, Maureen Hingert; Miss Puerto Rico, Carmen Laura Bettancourt; Miss Sweden, Hillevi Rombin; Miss Norway, Solveig Borstad; Miss Israel, Ilana Carmel; Miss Greece, Sonia Zologiou; Miss Lebanon, Hanya Beydoun; Miss Germany, Margit Nunke; Miss France, Claudie Petitt; Miss Belgium, Nicole de Meyer; Miss Finland, Sirkko Talja; Miss Ecuador, Leonor Carcache; and Miss England, Margaret Rowe. In the photo to the right, twelve American girls arrive at California to participate in Miss U.S.A. 1955. Left to right, Miss California, Donna Schurr; Miss Arkansas, Margaret Anne Haywood; Miss Indiana, Mary Ann Wasick; Miss South Carolina, Sara Ella Stone; Miss Pennsylvenia, Marianne Marcus; Miss Minnesota, Sally Ann Colombo; Miss Philadelphia, Doris Summer Klein; Miss Michigan, Martha Smith; Miss Ohio, Carol Hagerman; Miss Wisconsin, Jeanne Marianne Boulay; Miss West Virginia, Barbara Jean Tucker; and Miss Maryland, Gloria Ruth King.

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