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Issue: Miss America Magazine #4 [22]
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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On Sale Date: 07/07/1946
Volume: 4
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 35 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1977, page 469, registration number B27015. Copyright renewed by Marvel Comics Group, May 23, 1974, renewal number R683653.
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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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informational, teen
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[untitled]

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Shopping Notes
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Table of Contents

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Oh, Johnny! Oh!

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Johnny Desmond (photos)
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An article about singer Johnny Desmond.

Appears on pages 8 (1p), 63 (0.55p), and 64 (0.45p).
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It's growing like a grapevine…
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What a treat in store for you next month!
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Editor Goodman announces that the upcoming September issue would, despite a paper shortage, "add many, many additional pages!" She goes on to give a brief bio for incoming editor-in-chief Thea Tyler, stating that Tyler had "designed clothes for America's teen-agers via Paramount Pictures," "was fashion director of many leading department stores," and was "well known for her radio program 'The Magazine of the Air.'"
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Beltbag

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Ad for a Miss America brand belt bag.
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Stripes Stripes Stripes

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An ad for striped clothing.
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The White Fury...

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It was sitting on the top step of our front porch, staring moodily off down the road towards the woods, thinking about poor Scamper, when the stranger turned up the path.
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Appears on pages 16 (1p), 17 (1p), 65 (0.75p), and 66 (1p).
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Let's Go Camping!

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An article about camping and summer camps.

Appears on pages 18 (1p), 19 (1p), 61 (0.5p), and 62 (0.67p).
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Fancy Face

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Perc Westmore (photos); Merry Carr (photos)
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2.6
Appears on pages 20 (1p), 21 (1p), and 36 (0.6p).
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Saturday Night Date...

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Appears on pages 22 (1p), 23 (1p), 54 (0.75p), and 56 (0.5p).
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So You Want to Be a Dancer?

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Jerome Robbins (photo)
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An article about becoming a dancer by famous dancer and choreographer Jerry Robbins.

Appears on pages 24 (1p), 25 (1p), 43 (0.67p), and 60 (0.33p).
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Ginnie Powell (photo); Buddy Rich (photo); Duke Ellington (photo); Tommy Dorsey (photo)
Our song-and-dance-and-jive man is here…
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Hello, dear!-- Where's Patsy?
Patsy's latest obsession has her putting on airs as she practices to become an actress.
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By all Taffy's friends it's well understood / She's THE connoisseur of that man Robin Hood...
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Growing Up!

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Miss America Magazine
Growing up is thrilling!
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Subscription offer.

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Oh oh! Vicky's in her Lauren Bacall mood again…
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This Little Piggie...

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A short article advising against over-eating.

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Boys aren't men of mystery.
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Maybe if we concentrate, it will ring!
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A captioned one-panel cartoon. A group of women are sitting around a table staring at a telephone.

Appears on page 40 alongside the unrelated "For Girls Only" text feature.
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The complaint department, this month takes care of the table-terrors…
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1.66
Appears on pages 41 (1p), 48 (0.33p), and 49 (0.33p).
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Lovely Lingerie

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?
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informational
Miss America Pattern
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Ad for Miss America brand cloth pattern #1075 - "Lovely Lingerie."
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[untitled]

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Cathy Downs (photos); Richard Long (photos); Johnny Sands (photos); Elizabeth Taylor (photos); Jane Withers (photos); Roddy McDowall (photos); Lon McCallister (photos); Gloria Dean (photos); Janet Martin (photos); Bill Shirley (photos); Richard Clayton (photo); Ross Hunter (photos); Jimmy Guston (photo)
What can be grander than gathering the gang together for a picnic?
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A photo shoot of Hollywood's younger set picnicking in Griffith Park.
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Miss America Speak

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Appears on pages 48 (0.67p) and 60 (0.55p).

Letters from: Rita Bender (New York, New York), Lavenia Carpenter (Star Route Welch, Texas), Juanita Newell (Front Royal, Virginia), Lorraine Johnson (Agenda, Kansas), Joann Sackett (New York, New York), Carol Braun (Portland, Oregon), Sylvia Shagroth (Chevy Chase, Maryland), Nancy Rosenzweig (Chicago, Illinois), and Dorothy Browarnik (Miami Beach, Florida).

Pictures of: Freida Barton (Overton, Texas), Jean Hamblet (Toronto, Canada), Jean Kesich (Chicago, Illinois), and Carol Braun.
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Sense of Beauty

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An article about common sense.

Appears on pages 50 (1p), 51 (1p), and 59 (0.5p).
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Send 'Em Packing

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Advice on how to pack for traveling.

Appears on pages 52 (1p), 53 (1p), and 65 (0.33p).
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Miss America's Heartiest Congratulations

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A photo accompanied by the following blurb: "Thea Tyler, Fashion and Merchandise Director of MISS AMERICA, shows Tony Pastor the first annual cup award given to the 'Teentimer Club,' on radio network NBC by MISS AMERICA magazine for 'outstanding teen-age entertainment'. A campaign for racial and religious tolerance is a feature of 'Teentimer Club' which has won widespread national approval. A studio audience of more than 1,000 teen-agers applauded this award to the popular variety program featuring name orchestras and their vocalists."

Appears on page 54 alongside the unrelated "Saturday Night Date" text feature.
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For Girls Who Wear Glasses

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Ad for glasses frames.
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She has a way with men—her way!
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0.11
A captioned one-panel cartoon. Two distressed young women look on as, across a dance floor, another woman is shown surrounded by excited young men.

Appears on page 56 alongside the unrelated "Jam Session" text feature.
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Hot Weather Colognes

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An article about wearing perfumes in the summer.
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humorous
The advantage in being named Fatso is your date isn't surprised when you eat a healthy meal.
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0.11
A captioned one-panel cartoon. A large girl is smiling as she speaks to her distressed skinny friend.

Appears on page 58 alongside the unrelated "Jam Session" text feature.
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[untitled]

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Notice the feather on the side.
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0.11
A captioned one-panel cartoon. A woman is in a clothing store trying on a hat that has a large feather hanging off of it that sweeps over her eye while a sales attendant stands excitedly behind her.

Appears on page 60 alongside the unrelated "Miss America Speaks" text feature.
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Diana's Double

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0.33
Announcing the winner and two runners-up of Miss America's "Are you a double of Diana Lynn?" contest. Winner Ashby Warden of Godfrey, Illinois received a $150 three-month course at the Grace Downs Hollywood Model School in New York, while Diana D. Woodall (Arlington, Virginia) and Marilyn Sample (Flushing, New York) received honorable mentions. Attached was a photo of each girl.

Appears on page 62 alongside the unrelated "Let's Go Camping!" feature.
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Sheer Magic!

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?
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0.2
A short article about liquid stockings.

Appears on page 64 alongside the unrelated "Oh, Johnny! Oh!" feature.

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