Abbie ౨ৎ’s Reviews > Miss America, 1945: Bess Myerson's Own Story > Status Update

‘At the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Hill, North Carolina, they whistled and cheered. One of them told the press, “She put her Bess foot forward.”’ 😭

“Most of all, I believed that now that I was Miss America, everybody would like me and want to be my friend”

Excuse me while I go cry
It’s sad enough that she felt this way in the first place, but knowing that she went on to face so much anti-semitism during her Miss America tour that she ended it early 3