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Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:00 AM

A new and improved Miss America? Hardly

Ball gowns, baton twirling, satin sashes: America's favorite pageant goes retro.
Sarah Karnasiewicz

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  • Thursday, December 22, 2005 09:54 AM

    More Retro Touches?

    Maybe I'm imagining this, but I seem to remember watching the Pageant in the 60s, and as each contestant walked down the catwalk in her swimsuit, the announcer gave her measurements (along with the other innocuous information about where she was from, what she wanted to do after college, etc.)

    Does anybody else "of a certain age" remember this? Will they be bringing this back too?

    —lolly Read lolly's other letters

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