A Wingman for Miss Universe: Explore the Homefront of the Vietnam War Through the Eyes of Miss Universe
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A Wingman for Miss Universe: Explore the Homefront of the Vietnam War Through the Eyes of Miss Universe
Sale price
$27.99
Regular price $33.99
The Miss Universe pageant of 1967, and its lasting echo across five decades, have long faded from the headlines that once blazed with Sylvia Hitchcock's triumph.
Fresh histories have eclipsed it, and the relentless march of time has drawn our attention away from this seven-day drama that unfolded in a Miami Beach ballroom.
As I have reason to believe, however, that the full story has never been told, not the one that unfolds behind the sequined curtain, not the one written in a fighter pilot's final letter, and as the quiet heroism of one Marine aviator shaped a woman's entire life work, I feel that no account of that era would be complete without some remembrance of this remarkable episode.
Fresh histories have eclipsed it, and the relentless march of time has drawn our attention away from this seven-day drama that unfolded in a Miami Beach ballroom.
As I have reason to believe, however, that the full story has never been told, not the one that unfolds behind the sequined curtain, not the one written in a fighter pilot's final letter, and as the quiet heroism of one Marine aviator shaped a woman's entire life work, I feel that no account of that era would be complete without some remembrance of this remarkable episode.