by Jack Brummet This is Hillevi Rombin, the 1955 Miss Universe. Her talents were gymnastics, track & field, skiing, and sausage snake charming. Here, she demonstrates her "performing dogs" for National Kraut and Frankfurter Week.
By Jack Brummet, Pageant Ed. A photograph from 1954: Miss Venezuela collapses mid-competition and no one dares break their pose (a chime of the Kitty Genovese story?). And the band played on. . .