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Issue: Miss America Magazine #1 [25]
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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On Sale Date: 10/08/1946
Volume: 5
Pages: 76
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 36 (7 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: B45780.
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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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teen
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Table of Contents

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Shopping Notes
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Split into 4 one-third page sections across pages 8-11.
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Fairfame Ruffling-Miss America Contest

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Announcing the the Fairfame fashion company's Miss America contest.
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Four Freedoms

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A list of things to be grateful for on Thanksgiving in 1946. The titular final four are: freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.
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A Shelter from the Stormy Blast

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A two-page photo spread advertising women's rain gear from four different clothing outfitters across the U.S.
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Overabundance

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A one-page feature ad for a slimming blouse.
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Ye Comeliest Hatt

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A one-page feature ad for ladies hats.
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Sunday Go to Meeting

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A one-page feature ad for semi-formal dresses.
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Count Your Blessings

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Clothing & accessories recommendations with illustrations.
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Fit for Festivity

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A feature ad for dresses designed by Lenox Formals.
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Enter Priscilla

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A feature ad for a dress with "seemly kerchief" and "demure pink cuffs." Purportedly a Miss America exclusive.
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Bedtime Story

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A two-page feature ad for night gowns.
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Date with a Senior

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Tell us about your very own ideas…
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Letters from Larrie Bates, Rachel Sanderson, Sylvia Arlson, Caroline Greenfield, Eileen McKnight, Doris Moore, and Ruth Vineyard.
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Weekend Guest

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Taffy's Dollars and Sense

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What's Your Hobby?

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Tragedy strikes!
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This Generation

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You can be the blight on the party…
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Let Your Color Be Your Guide

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Perry Lester (Nancy's date); Teddy Charles (band leader); Frederic (Hedy's date)
Frat dances mean music, laughter, dreamy new evening clothes – gay and exiting times to every teenager…and Patsy Walker is no exception…
Hedy goes for the femme fatale look as she tries to beat out Patsy and Nancy for best-dressed girls at the frat dance.
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Telephone Conversation

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Thanksgiving is a wonderful warm, "gather together" time.
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Your problem may be those males…
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Letters from Irene and Marty.
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Hands at Ease

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Make It Permanent

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Concert for Karen

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Virginia Weidler (photo); Leonard Sues (photo); Marilyn Maxwell (photo); Ross Hunter (photo); Lon McCallister (photo); May Mann (photo); Roy Rogers (photo); Ann Blyth (photo); John Compton (photo)
Peggy Cummins dropped out of her car at the Romanoffs…
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Thanksgiving 1621

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Personal Touch

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Autograph Etiquette

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Hollywood Cut-Ups

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Contests! Contests! Contests!
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Meet the Winners

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The winning entries in the second and third Sally Mason-Miss America blouse design contests: Sunnie Samuelson and Carol Lockway.

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