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Miss America v5 5

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Issue Information
Cover Date
March 1947
 
Cover Titles
How to Handle First Crushes
 
Cover Credits
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Issue Overview

Miss America #v5 5 was published in March 1947. It is part of Miss America, a fashion-focused series that began in 1944.

Atlas Tales indexes 26 stories for this issue, including "A Shoe Tree Grows in St. Louis ...." Indexed story credits include Maurice Bassaches and Gerrick, among others.

Stories

Notes: Tie-in to the Professor Quiz radio program (CBS, 1936-1941; ABC, 1941-1948), including a photo of the host, Dr. Craig Earl.
Notes: Subscription coupon.
Notes: No connection to the Rusty comic book.
Notes: Martin Goodman, Publisher; Bessie H. Little, Editor; Melvin D. Blum, Art Director; Jean Goodman, Supervising Editor; Joyce Reback, Fashion Editor; Beth Hollinger, Accessories Editor, Annette Blackman, Joan List, Associate Editors; Gladys Kay, Shopping Editor; Aileen Fogarty, Director of Public Relations; May Mann, Hollywood Representative.
Notes: Features photos of actors Rory Calhoun (1922-1999) and Cathy Downs (1924-1976).
Notes: Features a photo (as a space filler) of actor Bill Lundigan (1914-1975) and film director Howard Hawks (1896-1977) on the set of The Fabulous Dorseys (United Artists, 1947).
Notes: Features photos of actors Shirley Temple (b. 1928), her husband John Agar (1921-2002), Guy Madison (1922-1996), Franchot Tone (1905-1968), and Peter Lawford (1923-1984).
Notes: Features a photo (as a space filler) of Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) and Jimmy Durante (1893-1980) on the Songs by Sinatra radio program (CBS, 1945-1947).
Notes: Brief notes for the Miss America Club members. Indicates there are 2500 chapters in the United States and Canada, "and there's one in Hawaii too." Mentions that the April issue will be "on sale early in March." Describes the magazine's exhibit at the twenty-third annual Women's International Exposition of Arts and Industries, which opened in New York on 5 Nov 1946; a photo of the exhibit appears on page 72.
Notes: Features photos of actors Donald Defore (1913-1993), Gale Storm (b. 1922), Diana Lynn (1926-1971), David Street (1917-1971), Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) and his first wife Nancy Barbato (1939-1951).
Notes: Describes a fundraising drive to save the Sydenham Hospital in Harlem, "a very worthy, inter-racial institution," which eventually did close, in 1980.

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