LOS ANGELES – Bess Myerson, a New York favorite daughter who basked in the public eye for decades – as Miss America 1945, as a television personality, as a force in public affairs and finally, under a ...
LOS ANGELES -- The first Jewish Miss America, who parlayed her stunning 1945 victory into national celebrity, has died. Bess Myerson was 90. The Los Angeles coroner's office and Department of Public ...