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Miss America 1942 Jo-Carroll Dennison, a swimsuit rebel, dead at 97
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nypost.comconfirmed to CNN on Monday.Born in 1923 in Florence, Arizona, Dennison grew up in her parents’ traveling “medicine show,” in which she sang, dance and rode trick horses.
She was training as a secretary before being scouted for the Miss Tyler pageant in Tyler, Texas.Dennison wrote in her memoir “Finding My Little Red Hat” — published in September 2021 — that she had “sworn never to perform in public again” following those medicine show days.
However, she eventually agreed to compete in the pageant on the promise of a free swimsuit from a high-end department store.
After winning, she went on to nab the Miss East Texas and Miss Texas titles, before competing in — and winning — Miss America in 1942 at 18.“The Miss America Organization is.
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