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TWO of the twelve finalists who will compete in the third
annual Miss Teen International Pageant are 16-year-old
Elena Pedamonte, left, Miss Teen Italy; and Leonor
Rivera Varela, 17, right, Miss Teen Spain. The April 13
contest will be telecast from California on ABC-TV.
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MARINES’ REWARD —Two U.S. Marine officers wear their
newly-awarded Medals of Honor presented to them by Pres
ident Johnson in a White House ceremony. They are Maj
Robert J. Modrzejewski (left), Annapolis, Md., and 2nd Lt
John J. McGinty HI, Laurel Bay, S.C. They were awarded
the nation's highest decoration for heroism in Vietnam.
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By MEL HEIMER
THERE is a covey of Ameri
can quail who, by diligent star
vation, find themselves able to
make a hundred bucks an hour
or so by looking out gauntly
from the fashion magazines'
pages while clad in the latest
Dior or Balmain—but Patricia
Blair is not among them. Au
contralre.
“I tried it,” admits the tall,
red-haired beauty who for four
years now has been Fess Par
ker’s TV wife on the NBC ser
ies, “Daniel Boone,” “but when
I got thin enough, I became so
weak I couldn’t even walk
around; I couldn’t move.
“I guess I’m a girl type—
and I think I’ll stay that way.”
• * *
THE FAIR Patricia was quite
successful as a model for a year
or so in New York, to which
she had come from Texas (she’s
Fort Worth-born) after a noted
model bigwig had picked her
as one of America’s five most
beautiful girls. But high-fash
ion work, she confesses, meant
too much exposure to malnu
trition, and after a while she I
headed out for California, to I
which her family had moved.
“As it turned out,” she goes
on, "I’m just about perfect, size
wise, for Fess in the ’Boone’
shows because we’re both big
and the cameraman can get us
both into the close-up frames
without too much maneuvering.”
In California, Pat studied
dramatics with Clarence Greene
and Russell Rouse and soon was
signed to a two-year contract
with MGM. She did some little
theater work on the coast and
fe‘f!s Bob Cummings gave her
her big break. “I did about 20
of his programs as his recep
tionist,” she says, “and con
trary to some reports, I found
him always nice to work for. I
think he’s just impatient with
people who have no talent.”
* « *
HER FIRST starring role
came when she played the hero’s
girl friend on "Rifleman,” but
what she really liked acting were
the wicked wimmen she could do
now and then on guest shots.
“I was the murderess on a ‘Per
ry Mason,’ ” she says proudly.
SILHOUETTED soldier runs close to the ground in changing positions to retura Viet
Cong sniper fire. Gen. Westmoreland reportedly has asked for more troops to bolster
American forces in Vietnam.
TV CAMEOS: Patricia Blair
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Blair before going to fight a redskin er two.
“I stabbed the victim to death
with a pair of scissors. Such a
lovely part!”
The “Boone” show started
slowly but built up into a solid
weekly feature and will start
filming a fifth season in the
next few weeks. Like most
long-running programs, Pat
comments, it’s plagued by a
shortage of good scripts. “You
can’t help it; sometimes you
feel you’re doing roughly the
same show you did a couple of
years before,” she says with a
grin. "We find ourselves saying
to one another ‘YOU get bitten
by the rattlesnake this time.’”
Miss Blair married Martin
Colbert, a Los Angeles realtor,
three years ago and they usu
ally travel together. When home,
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. time on a large power boat and
they’re members of the Cali-
I fomia Yacht Club.
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AN AIR FORCE officer with
a gaggle of medals, Colbert took
Patricia to England last year
and they went to a dress-up
fete where, because he doesn’t
like to sport his ribbons, she
wore them on her dress. "And
did I get chewed out by this
large, determined lady who told
me I shouldn’t wear them!” she
said. "The only thing that helped
was a bit later her husband, a
small stocky man. soothed me
by saying it was 0.K.; I could
wear them. It was General Cur
tis LeMay, the retired Air Force
chief of staff.”