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...civil war in the South has been averted, and a Miss America pageant once divided is now strong. After weeks in which two women claimed to be Miss North Carolina, MISTY CLYMER, right, has been named the sole bearer of the title. Clymer had been battling REBEKAH REVELS, who won the state contest but resigned--she says under pressure--when her ex-boyfriend alleged he had topless pictures of her. After the sash passed to first runner-up Clymer, Revels sued to get the title back. Before a decision was made, both women went to Atlantic City, N.J., for prepageant...
Creating the sort of confusion perhaps not seen since the papal schism of 1378, two women claim to be the rightful holder of the title of Miss North Carolina. In June REBEKAH REVELS, bottom, won the state pageant and the honor of competing for Miss America. But then a former--and clearly still bitter--boyfriend wrote pageant officials offering to share two topless pictures of Revels he took several years ago (without her knowledge while she was dressing, she claims). Revels resigned, and the crown passed to first runner-up MISTY CLYMER, left. Revels, however, had a change of heart...
Their words didn't grab the nation's attention immediately. The first edition of the journals didn't appear until eight years after the expedition ended, in 1814. Hundreds of books later, it's hard to imagine the absence of Lewis and Clark from the pageant of popular American history. Without them, there would still be stirring tales of exploration but none that turn on the exquisite irony of an adolescent Indian girl giving crucial advice to two male Army officers. There would still be images of frontier adversity but none so stunning as that of Lewis expecting...
...museum about the town’s development as a railroad suburb in the beginning of the twentieth century. But instead of describing daily life in 1915, the depot’s first major event—a showing of old footage from the 1915 “Pageant of Lexington” which celebrates the battle—indicates that even in remembering Lexington’s twentieth century, the town still has one eye looking...
Young white women in white togas are shown doing an interpretive dance at a pond; records from the event say they are nymphs representing nature and the elements. The silent film of the pageant shows a young white woman as the “Goddess of Peace” standing elevated above soldiers and rioters. Playing into the standard line of Lexington’s immense importance, the local paper wrote last week that this scene represents “the debt the world owes to Lexington for her attainment of liberty...