For Barra Grant, it wasn’t easy growing up with Miss America for a mom. Bess Myerson, who reigned as the beauty queen in 1945, found fame as a beloved game show panelist, advised three presidents and ...

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Miss America's Ugly Daughter is a darkly comedic, poignant two character solo show about the seismic mother-daughter relationship of Bess Myerson and Barra Grant and will be directed by Eve Brandstein ...

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LOS ANGELES — Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the "Bess Mess" forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90. Myerson died ...

Bess Myerson was crowned Miss America in 1945 and was the only Jewish-American woman to ever hold the title. She went on to have a long career in... Bess Myerson Was An Author, TV Personality, Civil ...

LOS ANGELES -- Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the "Bess Mess" forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90. Myerson ...

When Bess Myerson borrowed a bathing suit in 1945 to compete in the Miss New York City competition, she could not have known the wild wave she would ride during her life in the public eye. Before ...

Bess Myerson, who parlayed her stint as the first post-war Miss America into a significant role in New York cultural and political affairs, including as a TV personality, died in Santa Monica, Calif.

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He was impatient with courtroom theatrics, and the Manhattan trials of the commissioner and ex-beauty queen Bess Myerson and the former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos had plenty. By Joseph P.

Editor's Note: This is the second article in a two-part series published by American Banker. Previously: The late Bess Myerson, a former Miss America who died in December 2014, came to Citibank in the ...