My office wall displays a series of Bess Myerson’s NY Post front pages. Nov. 9, 1987’s is titled “Cindy Adams Exclusive.” Its big, bold black woodblock headline screams: “Bess Tells Andy’s Life Behind ...

LOS ANGELES – Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the “Bess Mess” forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90. Myerson died ...

LOS ANGELES >> Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the “Bess Mess” forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90. Myerson ...

LOS ANGELES - Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the "Bess Mess" forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90. Myerson died ...

Bess Myerson’s star faded when the curtain finally closed on her wild New York run — but she found a kind of serenity in her final years in California, her only granddaughter told the Daily News. “I ...

(RNS) A nice Jewish girl from the Bronx, Bess Myerson rose to fame as Miss America 1945, the first (and so far only) Jew to win the pageant. After a long career in the spotlight followed by years of ...

For Barra Grant, it wasn’t easy growing up with Miss America for a mom. Bess Myerson, who reigned as the beauty queen in 1945, found fame as a beloved game show panelist, advised three presidents and ...

Bess Myerson, the 1945 Miss America winner who became a celebrated media personality and public servant and then was brought down by scandal, has died. She was 90. According to a statement from the ...

LOS ANGELES — Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the "Bess Mess" forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90. Ms. Myerson ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bess Myerson, 90, the first Jewish Miss America and a frequent companion of the late New York Mayor Ed Koch who later fell from grace in a city scandal, has died after a long ...