Word: leona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown more good looks than their 29 sisters representing the beauty of their respective areas. Poured into white bathing suits, the girls swiveled decorously down a runway under the judges' fastened, clinical eyes. Then, with the pomp of a St. James's coronation, the winner was crowned: Leona Gage (Miss Maryland), 21, a dark-haired stunner (5 ft. 9½ in., 118 Ibs.; 36-23-36). The prizes: a $1,000 wardrobe, a $2,000 contract with a cosmetics firm, a house trailer, a European trip, and a chance to compete with 32 other girls...
Ingenuous newsmen rushed to tell the world Leona's hoked-up Cinderella story: she had scraped together $45 to buy a gown for the Maryland preliminaries, had come West on a one-way ticket, borrowed a gown for the Long Beach judging. When she won the big prize she was down to her last $2. "I'm not manstruck," she said. "I'm not marrying until I'm 26." And then the roof fell in on Leona Gage: the judges learned that she was married...
Lights & Lies. At first Leona tearfully denied all. but the tears got her nowhere: her husband, Air Force Staff Sergeant Gene Ennis, 28, stationed at Baltimore, confirmed it; so did Ennis' mother in nearby Crisfield, Md.; so did Leona's mother in Dallas. At length Leona turned in her crown (to Charlotte Sheffield, Miss Utah) and confessed that she had done it all because "we desperately needed money to buy clothes and shoes for our two small children [aged 3 and 2]. My husband makes only $300 a month, and we owe so many bills." Then that story...
...Mary Leona Ennis (her real name) is only 18. Even at 13, she was a lovely, ambitious doll. Handsome Airman Gene Ennis began dating her in 1952, married her in 1954. Though Gene was a well-liked, hard-working Air Forceman (monthly pay: $370.90) Mary Leona yearned as always for the excitement of bright lights, attention and luxury. She studied modeling, parceled the kids out to friends and relatives, then jumped at Maryland's beauty contest and the chance for Miss U.S.A. Husband Gene...
...find out for certain whether Jolliffe's hopes and reasoning were right, New York City's Health Commissioner Leona Baumgartner announced a full-scale test. Men of 50 to 55 who have never had a heart attack, and men under 50 who have recently had one, will enroll in an Anti-Coronary Club. After exhaustive physical examinations, up to 5,000 volunteers will pledge themselves to abide by Dr. Jolliffe's diet rules. Within five years, Dr. Baumgartner hoped, there would be enough evidence to show whether they actually have fewer heart attacks than their fellows...