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win or lose in AtlanUc City, Anita Johnson has solid backing from fellow New Bernians. It is a tribute toher that thousands in her home town not only want her to do well in the Miss Amer ica Pageant, but feel she has an excellent chance. To single out one individual, even somebody as attractive and talented as this year's Miss North Carolina, and predict she will fall heir to the crown is risky business. Dozens of very outstanding contestants are destined to be disappointed in Saturday night's affair. Anita could be one of them. Whatever the outcome, this much can be safely said. Among the entries from every state in the Union there will probably be many who aren't as talented. Miss North Carolina actually has so many talents that sett ling on just one for her bid at Charlotte, and now at Atlantic City wasn't easy. Anita demonstrated for judges at Charlotte that she is tliorouglily capable of singing a popular type song in an enter taining and polished manner. Already she does show tunes like "As Long As He Needs Me" from the Broadway suc cess "Oliver" with the touch of a seasoned professional. Her choice of this number for the North Carolina and Miss America pageants was a wise one. However, offhand we can. think of numerous popular songs that we feel sure ^e could have also rendered very effectively. As a vocalist, Anita isn't re stricted to so c^led popular music. She can handle ftdk songs a very appealing way, projecting Intensity of feeling, as she does with popular melo dies, that Is convincing. Ills convincing because there's nothing phoney about it. As an instrumentalist, she plays the guitar, madolin, ac cordion .and piano creditably. For an amateur, 4>e is well above the average as a tap dancer and has considerable po tential In this field. Her train ing in ballet has been limited, but here again It isn't wild thinking to conjecture that with good instruction, and her de termination and splendid body coordination, she c.ould, over a period of years, develop into a baUerina worthy of the name. Unfortunatelv. the audiences (Continued on page C) ti . a Foshion Note Sfrttt Smt-iHrattftt (Ztomttg fublir CUtrorg Tht NEW BERN fUBLIOHID WIIKLY IN THB mABT OP • • — ■ NB-Craven Library 400 Johnson St« New Bern, NC 28560 L VOLUME 11 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1968 NUMBER 24 I & Miss North Carolina's offi* i;;| cial prosentation sown, a gift from Cona Millt, along ;|:j with numerous other outfits:^;- worn by Anita in this issue of The Mirror, was designed by a fellow North Carolinian, Luther Winborne Seif. It isi|;f one of Cone's white velve*^^: teen, has princess lines and;$; portrait neckline. A floating:;:; panel extends from shoulder to floor. The sweep of the$i skirt end panel are embell-;:^ ished with pearls and crystals and edged with ostrich % plumes. ^ I |! ! *■
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