Miss America contest back on broadcast TV .

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

With that the case , I will try , anyhow (I'm in Cali , remember) to watch it , just now , on TV ~ for the first time since about 1985 !!!!!!!!!:-) Anyone else with me ?????????

  I 'm a couplishyears older than , but went to the same HS at a slightly but entirely different timeframe?? than Vanessa Williams...

[Ron M.]

It must have become very unpopular to get tossed off the air all that time.

Tags for this thread include Englehart and the Whizzer? Does the site assume you're referring to that Miss America?

Doesn't Marvel realize they have the comic book rights to the name? Why don't they have a character calling herself that?

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

...I will admit: I put in those tags myself . Trying for " relevance " here :-) !

  I got the date wrong ~ It's too-morrow night , Sunday , the 13th . Produced by dick clark productions (their capitalization) ~ They're still in business !

  I was wrong , it was brought back to broadcast a few years back , but it was away from broadcast (Check Wikipedia) , on cable , for some time ~ and I recall reading that , at some interim point , it became a " reality show " of sorts , with the 52 contestants - having their gradual disqualification , leading to the eventual winner  stretched out over more than one show ? Perhaps with some on-line " pre-show " stuff leading up to the one full-fledged TV performance ???

[Ron M.]

Mary Ann in Gilligan's Island was Miss Nevada. That's the only contestant I've heard of that went on to do anything outside of the contest.

[Randy Jackson]

Nope, Lee Meriwether and Vanessa Williams never did much of anything.

[Commander Benson]

Not to mention Bess Myerson or Mary Ann Mobley or Phyllis George.  I wonder what ever became of them after they won the title.

[Ron M.]

Who are Bess Myerson and Phyllis George?

[ClarkKent_DC]

Ron M. said:

Who are Bess Myerson and Phyllis George?

From The New York Times, Jan. 15, 2015: "Bess Myerson, New Yorker of Beauty, Wit, Service and Scandal, Dies...

Bess Myerson, a New York favorite daughter who basked in the public eye for decades — as Miss America in 1945, as a television personality, as a force in public affairs and finally as a player in a shattering municipal scandal — died on Dec. 14 at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 90.

Her death, which occurred in the relative obscurity in which she lived her last years, had not been publicly announced but was confirmed on Monday by public records.

Ms. Myerson was one of a select group of American figures to parlay pop culture celebrity into positions of influence in the public square. She led two New York City agencies, Consumer and Cultural Affairs; advised three presidents; championed social causes; and supported powerful political careers. She also sought one for herself, entering a much-watched primary race for the United States Senate. For a long time she seemed rarely out of the news.

From the Miss America site: Phyllis George

Phyllis George is known as a trailblazer in many areas in her life. She became the first-female co-host of "Candid Camera". She went from there to be the first female sportscaster on national TV co-anchoring the popular Emmy Award winning "NFL Today Show" on CBS with Brent Musburger and Irv Cross from 1975-1984. She also co-hosted three Super Bowl broadcasts and six Rose Bowl Parades in Pasadena, California. In 1985 she became the co-anchor of the "CBS Morning News" broadcast once again interviewing some of the great newsmakers in the world. Ms George created and hosted two shows on TNN "The Phyllis George Specials" and "Spotlight with Phyllis George".

She also became the first founder and owner of a chicken company – Chicken by George. CBG merged with a very successful national company and became a division of Hormel Foods.

Ms George is an accomplished author. She has written five books. Her most recent and bestseller is NEVER SAY NEVER YES YOU CAN! It is now in re-print.

[Ron M.]

So Phyllis George was the original founder of Spam?

[ClarkKent_DC]

No. Spam's been around since 1937. 

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