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The Northwest Times
Seattle, King County, Washington
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18-year-old Mieko Kondo, Miss Japan 1954, arrives in San Francisco for Miss Universe, greeted by JAL staff. Praised by Louis Blaine as a top Asiatic contender against German Regina Ernst.
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Mieko Kondo (in kimono) 18-year-old candidate for the "Miss Universe title is welcomed upon her arrival at San Francisco's International Airport recently aboard a Japan Air Lines DC-6 from Tokyo "Miss Japan (for 1954) a student at a designing school in Nagoya, Japan, is shown being greeted by Elmer Bassey, JAL's sales manager, and pretty Kathy Sato ground hostess for JAL
"The German contestant, Regina Ernst is very good-looking but if there's anyone among the Asiatic beauties who will give her a good run for the title, it's Mieko." Louis Blaine Universal International representative in Long Beach, told the United Press
"That is of course, an American girl does not win."
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San Francisco's International Airport
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1954
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Mieko Kondo, 18-year-old Miss Japan 1954 and student at a designing school in Nagoya, arrives in San Francisco aboard a Japan Air Lines DC-6 from Tokyo. She is greeted by JAL's sales manager Elmer Bassey and ground hostess Kathy Sato. Louis Blaine praises her as a strong Asiatic contender against the good-looking German contestant Regina Ernst, assuming an American does not win.