Word: hetzel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through it all, the gals decided that the Miss America contestant who was nicest was Jeanne Flinn Swanner, 19, Miss North Carolina. So they elected her Miss Congeniality. She was also the tallest (6 ft. 2 in.); the contest's shortest contestants, Melissa Stafford Hetzel, 21, Miss Vermont, and Flora Jo Chandonnet, 20, Miss Florida (both 5 ft. 3 in.) came barely to her shoulder. But friendliness and size don't win contests. So when the judges brought in their verdict, medium-sized (5 ft. 61 in.), well-deployed (35-23-35), not-quite-so-congenial Donna Axum...