- Title: TAIWAN: TAIPEI: FORMOSA'S FIRST "MISS CHINA" CONTEST
- Date: 11th June 1960
- Summary: 1. LS. AUDITORIUM - ONE CONTESTANT IN CHEONGSAM. 5 ft 2. MS. CONTESTANT IN CHEONGSAM. 8 ft 3. MS. AUDIENCE. 9 1/2 ft 4. MS. CONTESTANT IN SPORTS CLOTHES. 14 1/2 ft 5. MS. AUDIENCE. 16 1/2 ft 6. MLS. TEN FINALISTS ON STAGE. 19 ft 7. CU. TWO WOMEN AMONG AUDIENCE. 20 1/2 ft 8. MLS. WINNER MISS LIN BEING CROWDED. 26 1/2 ft 9. MLS. AUDIENCE - MOST OF THEM WERE ASPIRANTS WHO WERE EARLIER ELIMINATED. 28 ft 10. CU. MISS CHINA. 32 ft 11. MS. MISS CHINA AND FOUR FINALISTS. 34 ft 12. LS.- DITTO -. 37 ft Initials KJ/V Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 26th June 1960 13:00
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- Location: Taipei, Formosa
- Country: Taiwan
- Reuters ID: LVA3505APOXKTZEH69DODVMW5W3B
- Story Text: The finals in Formosa's first "Miss China" contest were held at Taipei, June 6.
Ten shapely candidates - out of an initial 109 - dressed in high-slit tight-fitting cheongsams paraded before a panel of ten judges whose choice was 23-year-old Miss Lin Ching-I. She will represent "Free China" in the international beauty contest at Long Beach, USA, in August 1960.
Mayor Huang Chi-Rui of Taipei handed the beauty crown to the Formosan-born girl, who is a graduate of the Taipei Practical Home Economics College. She speaks Mandarin and some English.
Runners-up were Miss Yeh Mo-Chu, 23, and 18-year-old student Miss Wang Li-Ling.
Formosa decided to select a "Miss China" for the first time, after the organisers of the American "Miss Universe" contest announced a radical change in the Long Beach beauty meeting. According to them the swim-suit competition - hitherto the main feature of the contest - has been abolished, all publicity trappings have been cut, and the contest is now designed to promote international friendship goodwill and understanding.
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