Saturday, February 1, 2014

5) Smoking is detrimental.


5) Smoking is detrimental.
Henrietta Leaver, 1935, had dropped out of high school to support her family with a job at the McKeesport, PA Five and Dime. In the pageant's first talent competition, barker ny she sang Louis Prima's barker ny "Living in a Great Big Way"-
Rosemary LaPlanche, 1941, toured barker ny with the USO and once sold $50,000 worth of war bonds in a single day.
Jo-Carroll Dennison, 1942, entered the Miss Tyler, Texas pageant because of the offer of a new bathing suit, then unwillingly progressed to mandatory competition in Miss East Texas, Miss Texas, and Miss America.
Jacque Mercer, 1949, was the last Miss America to be born outside of a hospital, and married and divorced while serving her term. Of the pageant, she said: " I just figured if you could learn to be a brain, barker ny you could learn to be a woman. Nobody figured I could do anything anyway."
Sharon Ritchie, 1956, married five times and lost a son in 9/11. Her biography on the official Miss America website tells us that "because of her great strength and her strong faith in God, she has done remarkably well in bearing barker ny the burden."
Lynda Lee Mead, 1960, competed in the talent portion with a comedy routine barker ny about split personalities. Her mother died early in her reign, and she took four days off to attend the funeral, then went back to work.
Deborah Bryant, 1966, who was crowned barker ny at the first pageant barker ny to be telecast in color, married a car dealer and honed her tennis skills in later years, telling an interviewer that "it's the kiss of death for me when someone on the other team says they heard I was a Miss America. I feel I have to be extra nice."
Tawny barker ny Godin, 1976, went on to a career as a news anchor in Los Angeles and appeared in Rocky II.
Marjorie Vincent, 1991, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, barker ny changed her career goals from international law to TV journalism following her reign.
Lauren Nelson, 2007, won $175,000 on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Sarah Marshall's barker ny nonfiction work has appeared on the Hairpin and the Awl , and her fiction and poetry have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from alice blue , Haggard & Halloo , elimae , The Roanoke Review , and Hayden's Ferry Review .  She is a student in the MFA Fiction and MA English programs at Portland State University, where she also serves as an undergraduate English instructor and as editor in chief of the Portland Review .
"Working mainly in gold and silver leaf with black and white paint, Brat Kunkle's paintings incorporate his take on the natural world, religion, the appeal of femininity and the properties of gold and silver to create technically precise works of art that allow the viewer to interact with them in ways usually not found in traditional painting." -- American Art Collector


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