Bess Myerson, noted ex-Miss America, dead at 90
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Source: CNN
By Todd Leopold, CNN
Updated 9:08 PM ET, Mon January 5, 2015
(CNN) Bess Myerson, the 1945 Miss America winner who became a celebrated media personality and public servant and then was brought down by scandal, has died. She was 90.
According to a statement from the Miss America Organization, she died in Santa Monica, California, on December 14. No cause of death was given.
Myerson's rise to fame was a classic rags-to-riches American success story: a bright Bronx girl from a housing project, the daughter of a house painter, who won the nation's most famous beauty contest and parlayed her renown into a media career. She became a model and spokesperson and spent many years on the game show "I've Got a Secret."
The path to celebrity was one followed by such pageant winners as Lee Meriwether, Mary Ann Mobley, Phyllis George and Vanessa Williams.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/05/us/feat-bess-myerson-jewish-miss-america-dead/index.html
Was her death reported by a major news outlet at the time? If so, this thread should be locked. All I can say is that I've definitely heard of Ms Myerson, but had had no idea that she'd passed on.
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