Birthday Wishes

Talking about “Beauty Queens” & “Runners-Up”, eLanka, The Lanka Times & me, myself, send birthday wishes directly to Maureen Hingert in America (born on January 9th 1937), where she was the 2nd runner-up in “The Miss Universe” contest in the mid 50’s. She certainly put Ceylon “on the map” in achieving this & we are all proud of her.

“Neliya” was 13 when I met her in 1950 in Lorensz Road, Bambalapitiya, where we both lived. I remember a song called “Puppy-Love” during the good old days and it certainly was, as far as we were concerned.

Later on, I wrote the song “Dream-World” for her, too late for me, because she had already “made it” in the U.S.of A. when the song was released.

This will be another “story” coming up in eLanka later, but let me just say ” Happy birthday Neliya” Time has caught up with both of us but let’s keep in touch while we still can. My best wishes to you & your family
We certainly hope that these wishes find you well.

Desmond Kelly
“Star.of eLanka”.