[News Script: Meade-Rickenbacker] Page: 1 of 4
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MEADE..RICKENBACKER 1-1-1
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A big Braniff airways jetliner up to Gate 17
at Love Field, and who steps out? None jujoak other
than the president of another airline, Eddie Ricken-
backer of Eastern, ar/ in arm with a former Miss
America, Lynda Meade. Hickenbacker is in Dallas to
further the cause of conservatism and Miss Meade to
promote the products of a big appliance manufacturer,
Rickenbacker, topped out in his familiar crushed felt
hat, tells reporters he sat beside Miss Meade because
it was the red-blooded American thing to do. Twin
youngsters in white present the 1960 Miss America
with bouquet of flowers. nd Lynda replies with
a big smack on both their cheeks.
RI CKENBACKER
ickenbacker poses with John Leedom, the ir esident
of a Republican men s club in Dallas. Rickenbacker
A spoke tonight against his favorite target---liberalism. Meanwhile, pretty Lynda is being present-
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Meade-Rickenbacker], script, April 27, 1962; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc946821/m1/1/: accessed May 31, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.