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Friday, January 13, 2012

Miss America

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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The first Miss America was in 1921,the winner -16 year old  Margaret Gorman.
By 1939, a "long-stemmed" Miss Michigan was crowned Miss America.
Miss America 1949 Jacque Mercer got hitched to her high school sweetheart during her reign.
Crowned in 1945, less than a week after the end of WW II, Bess Myerson was the first (and so far only) Jewish Miss America.
In 1951, Mobile, Alabama's Yolande Betzebe refused to pose in a swimsuit during her reign as Miss America.

More trivia at the link.

Where are they now? http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/28796777/ns/today-style/t/miss-america-winners-where-are-they-now/

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