Miss America
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After winning Miss America in 1989—three years after the competition stopped releasing contestants’ measurements—she used the scholarship money to pay for her Stanford education.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Margot Mifflin is a professor at the City University of New York and the author, most recently, of “Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-year Quest to Define Womanhood.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024
Apart from a voting scandal at the Miss America contest in 2022, recent controversies have tended to be in less developed parts of the world.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024
Shindle, a former Miss America, will wrap up her third and final term on May 23.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024
The tallest being Rachel, at five feet six inches and the full benefit of Miss America posture; the shortest being myself, two inches lesser than my twin on account of crookedness.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
