29   Recorded January 11, 1973

Nancy Johnson from San Francisco: “I was Miss America of 1961” Rosemary Koplan from Sherman Oaks: “I was Miss America of 1941” and Ruth Schaubel from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: “I was Miss America of 1924”

All three are using their married names.  Nancy Fleming was Miss Michigan when she won the 34th competition. In 1978, she would marry radio personality and game show host Jim Lange.  Rosemary LaPlanche was Miss California three years in a row (1939-41) and finally won Miss America on her third try.  The pageant changed the rules after her reign so that no one could compete in the final Miss America competition more than once.  She appeared in some two dozen movies in the 1940s, usually in small, uncredited roles.  Miss Pennsylvania Ruth Malcomson won her title back when the event was still occasionally called “The Atlantic City Pageant” and the winner crowned “The Golden Mermaid.”  She married Carl Schaubel in 1931 and they would remain together until her death in 1988.  

[Carla Christensen] from San Anselmo: “I collect smells”

Artist Colin Ingram of San Anselmo has collected 150 distinct smells from around the world.  He keeps gallons of extract and puts the various smells in small vials for public sniffing. Mr Ingram’s olfactory exploits around this time are well documented in and around his Bay-area community, and a UPI story about his work appeared in newspapers nationwide.  We have no idea why the teenaged Carla appears here in his place.  She is not mentioned in any of the stories about Ingram.