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Queennubs Contest Sponsorslue-Eyed School Girl Wants a Rest and Back to School.ATLANTIC CITV. N. X. Sept. 13. )—A soft-spoken, blue-eyed school-rl reigned as ‘America's number ne beauty queen today—much to he embarrassment of a steel pier-ull of city officials and beautyontest sponsors.yuid while the officials, fustrated d weary, declared she can’t do is to us/' Miss Bette Cooper, 17-ear-old Miss Bertrand Island of ackettstown and Miss America of 937, went right on doing it.lIt being a complete and whole-earted snubbing: of the fruits of er - victory: a six-week vaudeville ontract, a $400 offer for five days n the Steel Pier, and a flying trip o Hollywood for a screen test in-luded.“No movies, radio or vaudeville or me! she said today. *Tm gong’ to stay in bed and get rid of his cold, and then back to school or me-A streamlined youngster of 5 feet, six inches and7 120 well-placed pounds, Miss Cooper is strictly an amateur beauty with no ulterior do signr* She skipped from America’s playground yesterday a few hours after her crowning, leaving behind a bewildered group of sponsors, officials and contract-padded dignitaries.s Mayor C. D. White, all the city commissioners, George Tyson, pageant director, Edward Curtis, chair-man of the judges committee, andsundrjr others met in rapid, impromptu conferences.They conferred and conferred but the answer still came out the same —Miss America of 1937 was gone and what’s more she wasn’t coming back. “Very peculiar/1 they muttered, lifting eyebrows.No Bathtubs for HerMaxine . -Page!, “Miss KorthjDakota,” above, was missing from the line of beauties at the annual Atlantic City /‘Miss . America” pageant. She .was starting to school at Kansas City, Mo. She balked at appearing when told contestants would be photographed in bathing suits and getting in and out of bathtubs. ul couldn't* do that,” ;she said. She here holds a vase of wheat, won back in North Dakota. .SAYS U,S, FLAGS FAILED TO SAVE•Vlicam « ■
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Sault Ste Marie Evening News
Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, US
Mon, Sep 13, 1937
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