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26 Beauty wonders how she won honor By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Is Lynda Carter. TV's "Wonder Woman." really the most beautiful woman in the world 1 The International Academy of Beauty says so, although none of the members of that little-known body has ever seen Lynda in the flesh. So far as is known, the academy, presided over by British fashion designer Bill Gibb. has never previously announced its choice for the most beautiful woman in this celestial paradise. RICHARD PRYOR 7:30 (MY SHOWN AT 7:45 A Carl Reiner Film HENRY WINKLER nl Pictures PfBenn Fust P'OCaCtU' SHOWN AT 7:30 ONLY OTHERSIDE OFTHE MOUNTAIN HAROLD BOBBINS' Nor.

for that matter, has the International Academy of Beauty ever published its criteria for singling out one woman from some 2 billion other females inhabiting planet earth. Even Lynda herself, a scrumptious brunette with pale blue eyes that sometimes turn a luminescent gray, has no clear-cut idea how the academy selected her. She certainly didn't lobby for the honor nor enter any contest. One picture It is presumed Gibb and company studied photographs of actresses, models and perhaps even police mug shots in reaching their momentous decision. Lvnda was told she was se- WESTERN PLAYBOY CLUB 925 W.

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Broadway Have it your way Lynda Carter lected the most beautiful woman in the world on the basis of one particular portrait that fell into the hands of the academy. One also may assume the academy restricts its analysis to facial beauty because Lynda's magnificent architecture is not shown in the photograph which won her the honor. Wobbly though the credentials of the International Academy of Beauty may be in this matter, it is, nonetheless, a considerable distinction for any woman to be dubbed the solar system's most beautiful. "What can you possibly say?" Lynda asked. "Terrific.

I thought it was great." She was in her mobile home dressing room at The Burbank Studios where her CBS-TV series is filmed. Lynda wore a modest shirt and a pair of skin tight blue jeans. Her abbreviated Wonder Woman costume was hanging nearby. Lynda may or may not be the most beautiful woman in the world. But clearly and under any circumstances she would certainly be a contender if current American tastes in such things were voted on by the male population.

"This honor came as a complete surprise," she said. "I didn't know I was being considered for the title or even if it was an annual event. "They judged nie on a photograph that has been my favorite. It's just a head shot of me looking straight into the camera. There's nothing phony about it.

"It is the nicest photograph I've ever had taken but I don't think of it as me. I look at it almost as a third person." Lynda, a bright and articulate young woman, is not unaccustomed to being praised for her. beauty. She won the 1973 Miss World-USA' title. But like many extraordinarily comely women, she is not overimpressed with her appearance.

She did, in fact, ask why the academy had made its announcement. "They never named a most beautiful woman before," she said. "I think it's because women are so visible in movies these days and because they are dominating television. "Beauty is important. Especially to an actress.

But it is important to get past it, too. It seems all my life I've been a 'Miss This or A princess. Now this honor. I don't fight it anymore. "I'm excited this time because it almost had nothing to do with me in regard to a job.

It came at a time when I don't need it. Beauty used to be the rea son for my success. It's gotten me to this point but I'm going past that now. "I'm often asked how I feel about beauty. I can't take any credit for it.

I had nothing to do with it. My parents did it. They should be given an award." Lynda is smart enough to know that conventional beauty eventually palls or tastes in beauty change. She hopes to become an accomplished actress and singer so that when her beauty does di- For Your Entertainment Salina Movies Fox "Heroes." Vogue "Which Way Is Up?" Sunset Plaza Cinemas Side 1: "Gray Lady Down." Side 2: "The One and Only." Mid State Cinemas Side 1: "The Other Side of the Mountain, Part Two." Side 2: "The Betsy." TV Tonight Over Easy, 6 p.m., Channel 8 Nursing home patients' legal rights are discussed; an interview with singer Mabel Mercer. Grizzly Adams, 7 p.m., Channels 2, 3, 18 Mad Jack searches for gold.

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4 I RAVEL minish she will have something loss ephemeral going for her. "Wonder Woman" is a step toward bigger and better things. Her husband-manager, Ron Samuels, is building her career. This June she will headline at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. She is working on a record album.

But Lynda doesn't discount beauty. Were it not for her looks she might be a housewife in her native Arizona. "I suppose it's better to be born beautiful than not," she said. "But 1 really don't know. I have no basis for comparison." THE RED PUSSYCAT CLUB 1111 W.

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