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Issue: Miss America Magazine #4 [16]
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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On Sale Date: 01/07/1946
Volume: 3
Pages: 76
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 30 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, No. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-47, p. 240, Copyright number: B2167.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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May Mann (photo); Jane Powell (photo); Roddy McDowall (photo); Joan Leslie (photo); Robert Hutton (photo); Martha Vickers (photo); Richard Erdman (photo).
Saw Jeanne Crain at three garden parties in a row.
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Miss America Contents

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The Cold, Cold Facts...

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Body and Soul
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An article advising readers to isolate themselves when sick.

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Game of Hearts

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Margie Jackson sat ill-at-ease on a bench in the Fairmount High School gymnasium during the Saturday "Recreation Hour."
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Appears on pages 10 (1p), 11 (1p), 66 (0.67p), and 71 (0.67p).
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New Year – New You

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Ad for clothes for the new year.
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Cold Comfort

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Ad for warm winter clothes.
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Going Formal

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Advice for girls looking forward to attending their first formal dance.

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Girl Meets Girl...

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Peggy Ann Garner (photo)
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14-year-old reporter Sandra Marks' write-up of the afternoon she spent with 12-year-old actress Peggy Ann Garner.

Appears on pages 18 (1p), 19 (1p), and 57 (0.33p).
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Give the Gang a Party...

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Recipes and party tips.

Appears on pages 20 (1p), 21 (1p), 68 (0.6p), and 69 (0.2p).
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Footlight Fun...

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An article espousing the joys of joining one's school drama club.

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Kay Starr (photo); Artie Shaw (photo); Vaughn Monroe (photo)
This has been a gallivantin' month in New York.
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I am really in the middle of the most gigantic project.
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Have you noticed how utterly fat Patsy Walker is getting?
Patsy and Nancy try to lose weight.
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You Whip Me to a Frill...

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If I'd known Jane Howard was going to be anything but a pure black widow, I'd never have done the things I did.
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This month's "Miss America" writing contest winner. Author was age 15.

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Betty Blair (final appearance)
The office of the Middletown Clarion--
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The final appearance of Betty Blair.

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I hate food, but they say you just can't exist without it!
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A captioned one-panel cartoon. A large girl walks with her petite friend through a school cafeteria with her lunch tray full with food.

Appears on page 46 alongside the unrelated "Dear Betty Ann" text feature.
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Sweet Stuff

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A short candy recipe "from Laraine Day's Cook Book."

Appears on page 47 alongside "You Whip Me to a Frill."
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Subscription Offer

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Subscription offer.

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It isn't so long since Laraine Day had problems…
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Rhumba on the Square

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Charlie was a very attractive girl.
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Appears on pages 52 (1p), 53 (1p), 72 (0.75p), and 73 (0.67p).
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Sister Act

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An article about making the most out of being a younger sister.

Appears on pages 54 (1p), 55 (1p), and 59 (0.5p).
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Self-Conscious Sue

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Advice for "the kind of girl who makes mountains out of molehills."

Appears on pages 56 (1p), 64 (0.25p), and 65 (0.5p).
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Seems i've been dispossessed from my usual corner…
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Editor Goodman explains why they combined the December and January issues (it was due to a printers' strike) and promotes some of the upcoming new columns premiering in future issues.

Appears on page 57.
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A Poem

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He asked her out to cut a rug, / Never dating her before.
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A four-line poem included as filler.

Appears on page 58 alongside the unrelated "Hollywood's Younger Set" feature.
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Blouse Designing Contests

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An ad announcing three new blouse designing contests sponsored by Miss America and Sally Mason, Inc. First prize winner receives a $25 Victory Bond and their blouse would be produced as the "Sally Mason Blouse of the Season."

Appears on page 58.
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Come on, girls, let's get together…
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Letters from: Renee Katz (Brooklyn, New York), Jeanne Johnson (Slater, Missouri), Jill Freeman (New York, New York), Joyce Greller (Chicago, Illinois), Barbara Zimmerman (Eaton, Ohio), Sara MacKennon (Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada), Judy Schulenburg (Brooklyn, New York), Joyce Forsdike (Sidcup, Kent, England), Rita Beaudette (Manchester, New Hampshire), Phyllis Marcus (Brookyln, New York), Ruby Hawk (Lemitar, New Mexico), Rosemary Fisher (Grand Rapids, Michigan), Verna Fretz (Kaleden, British Columbia, Canada), Mary Leslie Anno (Fontaine, Ohio), Evalene Smith (Garland, North Carolina), and Clarice Norton (Bemus Point, New York).

Pictures of: Johnson, Forsdike, Marcus, Hawk, Smith, Norton, Beaudette, and Ilene Taylor (Murray, Kentucky).

Appears on pages 60 (1p), 67 (0.55p), and 68 (0.25p).
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Ode to Languor

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I don't skate and I don't ski, / No nimble basketballer, mi.
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A five-couplet poem included as filler.

Appears on page 65 alongside the unrelated "Self-Conscious Sue" feature.
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I still don't consider a four and a half dollar sandwich a snack!
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A captioned one-panel cartoon. In a movie theater an angry boy turns to the girl seated next to him to complain.

Appears on page 67 alongside the unrelated "Give the Gang a Party" text feature.
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Are You a Double of Diana Lynn?

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Are You a Double?
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An ad declaring that "this is Contest No. 1 of a series of 'Are You a Double?'" The winner would be whichever reader most resembled the attached photo of actress Diana Lynn. First prize winner received a $150 three month modeling course at the Grace Downs Hollywood Model School in New York.

Appears on page 70.

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