A TRMS viewer sends us this copy of the June 1967 issue of Town & Country. In it, there exists a two-page spread of numerous dashing young men, entitled: "25 of America's Most Eligible Young Men and What the Girls Who Get Them Can Expect."
And one of these gentlemen caught our viewer's eye -- a certain Willard "Mitt" Romney, age 20.
Town & Country revisited this 1967 article this past January, and noted that Mitt technically wasn't quite eligible at the time of the article's publication - he was engaged to his future wife, Ann.
As you can see, 20-year-old Mitt Romney was a "serious chap" who enjoyed water skiing (still does!) and painting in water color. Anyone who has their hands on a Romney original water color painting, share with us, please.
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see he`s into water sports (smiling guess that why he enjoys trickle down).
LOL
That was oddly the first thing that I saw. I am so creeped out.
Mitt enjoyed water polo, but had difficulty keeping the horses from drowning. {rimshot} Thanks, I'll be here all week. Tip your waitstaff.
What does Public Affairs on a major scale mean? Are they predicting that he would have affairs? Or that he would go into advertising or something? And I cannot imagine him painting, but good for him if he really does.
Of course he still paints! He "paints" a new picture of what he believes every day!!
Water sports? Public affairs? Wow, who would have guessed? Must have learned in France. Nothing like that ever happens in Salt Lake.
Ok, I'm going to throw down and invoke Godwin's law already.
Q: You know who else enjoyed water colors and politics?
A: Hitler :-P
I think Hitler was much more likeable than "Mitt."
Am I mistaken, or do every one of the men pictured look the same?
Franz Liebkind in The Producers:
I guess he can forget about those weekends at the White House.
That's all lovely, but I really want to see the "Advice & Dissent: A Guide for Young Ladies" article.
The only watercolor painting I would want of a Romney would be a watercolor painting by George Romney the 18th c. English painter. Alas I don't think there is one.
I think a Mitt Romney watercolor would be very lame.
Probably studies of lawn jockeys, every single damned one of them.
He said watercolor painting to try and impress all those beautiful, artsy hippy girls,who wouldn't give him the time of day and who Anne warned him to stay away from. That kind of a relationship never works out, everyone has seen how "The way we were" ends.
They forgot very moral, no convictions.
Here's the girl on the front cover: http://www.geni.com/people/Victoria-de-Rothschild/6000000010601796914
it was a flowing field of 20 dollar bills being shaded by a money tree showing Benjamin`s while banks of clouds was dancing.
Shouldn't the title of the article have been, "25 of America's Most Eligible Young White Men . . . "? 1967 <sigh of resignation>.
He's smirking in the photo.
"Painting in water color? How absolutely Churchillian!! You see, Lovey? I told you that boy's going places!!" ----Thurston Howell, III
I thought he married his high school sweetheart? He was on a break. One month later his father ordered the attack on a nightclub in Detroit leaving 33 black men dead, for no apparant reason.
Soon after appearing as one of "America's Most Eligible Young Men" he was eating off an ironing board. What happened?
So, marriage proposal June 1965, bachelor ad June 1967, separated for a year because of France and studies, blissful marriage as soon as George Romney became a secretary in Nixon's cabinet...
Hmmmm, somehow the sequence of events just doesn't work out too well...