[News Script: Miss Texas] Part: 1 of 8
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MISS TEXAS 1-1-1
Mrs. G. J. Post junior, wife of the general manager
of the Miss Texas Pageant, leads the president of
the Miss America Pageant, Albert A. Marks, before
a news camera in Fort Worth's Hotel Texas. Marks,
of Atlantic City, New Jersey, heads an organization
which oversees 35-hundred local and state contests
from which the 54 Miss America contestants emerge.
He once pulled his shirt-tail from his trousers to
dry the flow of tears from a new Miss America.
MED. MAN
Post, as a Miss Texas Pageant official, may face a
similar-problem Saturday. Marks says about sixty
in the nation
thousand persons/are involved in the contests and
it's quite an expensive operation.SOF HRE
SOUND ON FILM
LONG GIRLS ON STAGE
The Miss Texas Pageant entered its second round
tonight at Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium. About
twenty-five hundred persons attended last night's
opening session. Among them is Jacquelyn JeanneSOUND COMING
3:15
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Miss Texas], item, August 1, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc982313/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.