Here’s lookin’ at me, sailor

A 90-YEAR-OLD who says she’s the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II’s most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday — days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city’s Veterans Day parade.

Here’s lookin’ at me, sailor

Edith Shain of Los Angeles, donning a white nurse’s uniform like the one she wore back in 1945, went to see the musical revival of South Pacific and posed for pictures, being hoisted off her feet on stage by five of the actors in their Navy whites.

Today, she’ll ride in the parade at the head of a contingent of World War II veterans.

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