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...York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, 48, best symbolizes the clout of official consumer advocates. Myerson, who was Miss America in 1945, is paid $35,000 a year. She has worked, wheedled and fought to gain power for her agency, including the right to write and enforce its own regulations against deceptive advertising, spurious vocational schools and high-pressure collection agencies. Her four-year-old, 350-member department is buttressed by a $3.5 million annual budget, and has a young legal staff that is empowered to move swiftly to prosecute businessmen who break consumer laws...
...popular version of the story, accepted by those raving romantics Schiller and Donizetti, portrays Mary as a high-brogue Joan of Arc and Elizabeth as the Wicked Witch of the West. The new versions, sometimes wildly inaccurate in other ways, do at least correct that longstanding libel against poor Bess. The truth is that Mary probably was an accomplice in the murder of the philandering Darnley and that she constantly schemed for Elizabeth's death. She was a royal piece of baggage who royally deserved to have head and body separated long before Elizabeth signed her death warrant...
...moment when pop culture, nourished by everything from hard rock to Prufrock, stood on a tiptoe of expectation. Could the eclectic age -borrowing everywhere from the Bible to Porgy and Bess, from Beethoven to the world of Hair, from the symbolic body and blood of Christ to sheerest humanism-shape an enduring musical tribute to human failure and aspiration, to divine inspiration and its loss...
...remembered for her patriotism. In the year following her crowning, she sold more than $2,500,000 worth of war bonds. In the late 1940s she did a little CIA work in Lebanon. The most famous Miss America is undoubtedly New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, Bess Myerson Grant, who put a little too much truth in packaging at the 1945 pageant by tucking her 36-in. bust into a size 34 swimsuit. The most infamous beauty, alas, came from the pageant's home state. Janice Hansen, Miss New Jersey 1944, became a Mafia moll...
Divorced. Bess Myerson Grant, 46, former Miss America (1945) and now commissioner of consumer affairs for New York City; by Arnold Grant, 63, a New York attorney; no children. It was their second parting. They were first married in 1962, divorced five years later, and remarried...