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 ...

Bess Myerson. Born 1924. The Bronx. Died 2014. In California. Studied music. Tried modeling. In 1945, in a borrowed bathing suit, became Miss New York. Then the first Jewish Miss America. Next, ...

Bess Myerson, who rose from working-class Bronx roots to become the first Jewish woman to be crowned Miss America and went on to become a television star and a prominent figure in New York City ...

But her father, a house painter, could not afford to buy her one. The Myersons were that species of Jew that is becoming increasingly rare in New York these days — working-class, Yiddish-speaking, ...

Bess Myerson, who parlayed her stint as the first post-war Miss America into a significant role in New York cultural and political affairs, including as a TV personality, died in Santa Monica, Calif.

Bess Myerson, who just left us at the age of 90, is being recalled as a former Miss America and as Ed Koch’s near-constant companion during his 1977 mayoral run. I remember her as something different: ...

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 ...

The fact that Bess Myerson, whose death at age 90 on December 14 was recently announced, remains the only Jewish winner in the 90-plus year history of the Miss America pageant surely says more about ...

(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 battle with ...

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, the tall, aspiring musician who in 1945 became the only Jewish winner of the Miss America Pageant and went on to a career in New York City government, has died. She was 90. She was drawn ...

ANGELES — Bess Myerson, the former beauty queen, television personality and New York politician who spent four decades in the public eye before her glamorous image was tainted by scandal, has died.