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From: heahd@tellab1.UUCP (Dan Wood)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles,net.motss
Subject: Re: Miss America
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 09:47:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 24 09:47:54 1984
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I basically agree with Trish. I mean this is 1984 and Ms. Willams only had a
couple of months to go as M.A. I think if the pageant officials had taken a so
what attitude that the media hoopla would have been much less and the whole
thing would have passed more or less unnoticed. (I could be wrong. I have been
once before |~>.)

You can't say that this attention won't help her career as an "entertainer"
though. After all, until last friday I couldn't have told you Miss America's
name but it is unlikely that I will forget Vanessa Williams now (especially
since I've got her pictures tacked up in my office :-] ). I think the same can
be said for a lot of people (the part about her name, not the pictures
although that may well be true also). Not only that, but she has now joined
the ranks of such famous resignees as R.M. Nixon who resigned from the
position of Mr. right-wing america when pictures of him in a compromising
position with Checkers were published in Pet World in 1973 :-).

I doubt that the fact that the pictures showed her with another woman was the
real reason for the pageant official's reaction although that fact certainly
added to their consternation.  

Oh no Vanessa, I wouldn't 
dream of publishing these.
DW @ ...!ihnp4!tellab1!heahd